Home / Series / Deep Look / Aired Order / Season 0 / Episode 190

The Sacrifices Made For Silk

Those precious silk garments in your closet were made by the caterpillar of a fuzzy white moth – thousands of them. Silkworms spin a cocoon with a single strand of silk up to ten city blocks long. Humans have bred these insects into weaving machines that can no longer survive in the wild.

English