Thai silk comes from the silk caterpillar
Thai silk fabric is woven from the thin threads that the silk moth produces when it is a caterpillar and needs to make a small cocoon where it can transform itself into its adult, flying insect form. The thread is irregular but extremely thin and strong. In fact it is not uncommon for the caterpillar to produce one kilometer of its special thread as it makes its cocoon. and it only needs one thread. Weavers gently unravel this long single filament, twist it with others to make a manageable thread, wash, color, dry, stretch and finally wind it onto spools where they weave it into fabulous Thai silk fabric.
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