the.com/silk textiles
a moth's cocoon, unraveled into the world's most persuasive fabric.
means cloth woven from the fine protein filament silkworms spin to build their cocoons.
from china cracked the code around 3000 BCE, guarded the secret on pain of death, then quietly sold it to the whole world one caravan at a time along the road named after it.
single strand lengthone cocoon unwinds up to 900 meters
smuggling storymonks reportedly hid silkworm eggs in hollow canes
strength secretpound for pound, stronger than a strand of steel
cocoons per kimonoroughly 2500 cocoons for one garment