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Farming moths for their spit, then wearing it to weddings.
means The practice of raising silkworms to produce raw silk, from hatching eggs through feeding mulberry leaves to harvesting the cocoons.
from Built from Latin 'sericum' (silk) plus 'culture' (cultivation). 'Sericum' itself traces back to the 'Seres', the name ancient Greeks and Romans gave to the people of the East — likely China — from whom silk first arrived. So the word carries a faint memory of the Silk Road itself: a fabric so prized it named the distant people who made it, long before anyone in the West knew it came from a worm's cocoon.
- the catch
- larvae boiled alive inside their own cocoons
- scale
- one silk thread can run 1000 meters unbroken
- origin myth
- legend says a cocoon fell into a chinese empress's tea
- silkworm status
- so domesticated it cannot survive in the wild