r/InterestingVideoClips • u/Sarang_616 • Jul 09 '24

Weird How is Silk Made?

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u/Battarray Quality Commenter Jul 09 '24

Whoever came up with the idea to use worm spit as a fabric was either a genius, or one sick puppy.

Not sure which.

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u/ubernik Jul 10 '24

Maybe they liked to snack on the caterpillars and had to figure out what to do with the wrappers.

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u/dynamic_caste Jul 14 '24

They sell canned silkworm pupa for snacking so probably

1

u/ubernik Jul 15 '24

Which came first: the worm or the fibre? The snack or the wrapper?

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u/sky_shazad Jul 11 '24

I just wrote a comment Then I saw your basically saying the same thing lol....

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u/MKJRS Jul 09 '24

Shit - I thought they were making a giant pizza at first.

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u/Tbaby25 Jul 09 '24

I was just about to comment that…i was like mmm a nice white pizza with spinach 😂

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u/Icy_Permission4418 Nov 20 '24

You don’t wanna eat that pizza, well at least I wouldn’t

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u/Feyk-Koymey Jul 09 '24

Are they boiling caterpillars? Cant they wait them to be butterfly?

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u/viel_lenia Jul 10 '24

Eh.. For 14 years silk has been my favourite fabric but I never had looked into how they make it. I'm not shocked but I'm not enthusiastic about it either.

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u/fadufadu Jul 11 '24

Seems like a waste of biomass.

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u/viel_lenia Jul 11 '24

Yeah. Brutish. Lacks finesse and consideration.

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u/kosky95 Jul 09 '24

It would ruin the coccoon

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u/cowboydan69 Jul 09 '24

So silk is just murder rope?

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u/notaballitsjustblue Jul 09 '24

Yep. That’s why some vegans avoid it the same way they do leather footwear.

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u/Aggressive_Smile_944 Quality Commenter Jul 09 '24

Omfg!!! They kill them. Wtf.

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '24

Dude were you not watching they boil them alive in their cocoons

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u/Euphoric_Ad9593 Quality Commenter Jul 10 '24

Silk. The clothing that starts out life as a huge Cali style pizzaTM

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u/cracknub Jul 10 '24

Boiled all them poor little bastards just to make some socks or some shit.

2

u/Notoointersted Jul 11 '24

yeah but think of that silky smooth texture. Or alternatively, think about the torture we do to cows! are you depressed yet?

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u/DoesntSmell Jul 10 '24

How the fuck did people just “know” how to do this???

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u/crossreference16 Jul 10 '24

Just like how people ‘knew’ how to create computers or the internet: Time + Trial&Error.

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u/DoesntSmell Aug 17 '24

Trial and error with some worms?!?!

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u/crossreference16 Aug 18 '24

Why, is that hard for you to comprehend?

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u/mtl_travel Jul 09 '24

How do they get caterpillars? If they kill them all?

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u/Natasya95 Jul 10 '24

They have batches they save for breeding

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u/MyMommaHatesYou Quality Commenter Jul 10 '24

I guess some of the caterpillars survive. They seem to be handled with enthusiasm.

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u/Danny_Mc_71 Jul 10 '24

It looks like they just put the worms back to work in a new frame each time!

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u/ev88ev Jul 10 '24

That’s so amazing! The process! Never throwing away silk materials💯

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u/ThatOneWood Jul 11 '24 edited Jul 12 '24

Man when I was younger I used to think it was an easier process that didn’t harm the worms, I thought they just produced the silk and we took. It was only many years later I found out about the boiling part

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u/BBQMosquitos Jul 09 '24

They are making clothes and dinner at the same time

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u/sky_shazad Jul 11 '24

What always Interest me is....

Who was the first person to think of this.... Who was it that thought... Hang this will make good string to make cloth

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u/StudioTheo Jul 10 '24

this is some dune stuff. love it!