Abstract

The Mulberry silk Industry which is the queen of the textile industries and which is an important key industry may be divided into six distinct economic organisations each independent of the other and yet forming a peculiar combination of its own. These are (1) cultivation of mulberry (2) rearing of silk worms-an art which has been very highly specialised since the worm is domesti- cated (3) manufacture of silk-worm eggs known as seed where the use of microscope for moth examination has reduced the silk worm diseases to a minimum in highly developed sericultural con- tries (4) treatment of cocoons i. e, the reeling of raw silk wastes including pierced cocoons (6) manufacturing of silk fabrics out of raw and spun silks after the processes of twisting, bleach- ing, dyeing, weaving, finishing and designing.

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