Chrysalis - pupa case
Cocoon - silken sheath spun by insect larvae in passing into the pupa stage
Crop - pupae Degumming removing natural gum or sericin from silk
Denier - a unit of measure to calculate the fineness and weight of the silk yarn.
Douppion - coarse uneven silk used in the manufacture shantung, and other textured
silks.
Fibroin - silk protein
Filament - fiber
Filature - the production of raw (reeled)silk from cocoons.
Green cocoons - cocoons containing live pupae.
Gum (or sericin) - a protein that coats the filaments of raw silk which bonds the
filaments of silk in the formation of the cocoon.
Imago - adulthood
Larva - animal in an immature but active state
Molt - to shed skin
Mulberry leaves - leaves from the Mulberry tree on which silkworms feed
Pebrine disease - parasitic disease of the silkworm
Polyphagy - a habit of eating many different types of food
Pupa - an insect between the usually passive stage of larva and adulthood or imago
Pupate - to become a pupa
Schappe Silk - spun silk yarns which had been degummed by fermentation.
Sericin - gum produced from the silk gland
Sericulture - silkworm breeding
Sericteries - modified salivary glands or silk glands on the mouth part of the larvae
Silk Road - world's longest road from Eastern China to the Mediterranean
Spinneret - glandular opening on the silkworm where the silk is produced
Stifled - killed
Tussah - A wild silk of the Antherea mylitta caterpillar from the regions of China, Korea
and India.
Weighted Silk - The practice used to add weight during silk processing, usually with tin
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