Wow! What a great idea! Silk is the textile of kings, and always in demand. Imagine wowing your friends when you show them the silk stockings, silk shirts, and silk parachutes you have woven from the quiet little caterpillars you grow in your very own backyard. Run your business right, and you could become a silk barron in just a few short years. What could possible go wrong? Nothing!
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My Mother got some of these for me when I was a very small kid, about 3 or 4 years old. Very interesting creature and they spin silk in colours according to what you feed them. Feed them red cabbage, you get red silk, broccoli, green silk. great fun, but I cried when they changed into moths and flew away.
Jonathan CT
Silkworm farming was attempted in colonial times, but each time it was a dismal failure.
I don't know exactly why, but it seems that it has something to do with the cultivation of mulberry trees (as in the Eurasian species).
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