BEHOLD THE AMAZINGNESS OF SILK!
I will now share with you a small glimps at how amazing silk is. Lizzie is very fortunate; I am in constant communiction to her of its great wonder.
- One ounce of silkworm eggs prouces between 40,000 and 60,000 silkworms.
- To produce two pounds of raw silk a worm will feed on 485 pounds of mulberry leaves.
- One cocoon can produce up to 13,000 feet of silk filament.
- When the silk moth emerges it doesn't eat or fly (bummer) it just lays eggs and dies - so instead of destroying the cocoon the farmers bake the moths before they hatch (to kill them).
Pretty cool.
Now a bit about Buffalo (Bison).
- In the mid-1800s there were 70 million buffalo.
By the end of the century there were only 1,000.
Currently, there are 270,000 of the beasts.
All of these amazing facts from my book THE NATURAL KNITTER. A good read. Now I want to go find a ranch somewhere and pet all the goats, buffalo, alpaca, llama and sheep (but not so much the sheep).
I will now share with you a small glimps at how amazing silk is. Lizzie is very fortunate; I am in constant communiction to her of its great wonder.
- One ounce of silkworm eggs prouces between 40,000 and 60,000 silkworms.
- To produce two pounds of raw silk a worm will feed on 485 pounds of mulberry leaves.
- One cocoon can produce up to 13,000 feet of silk filament.
- When the silk moth emerges it doesn't eat or fly (bummer) it just lays eggs and dies - so instead of destroying the cocoon the farmers bake the moths before they hatch (to kill them).
Pretty cool.
Now a bit about Buffalo (Bison).
- In the mid-1800s there were 70 million buffalo.
By the end of the century there were only 1,000.
Currently, there are 270,000 of the beasts.
All of these amazing facts from my book THE NATURAL KNITTER. A good read. Now I want to go find a ranch somewhere and pet all the goats, buffalo, alpaca, llama and sheep (but not so much the sheep).
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