How did silk first get made in ancient China?
The Caterpillar's Secret
How did silk first get made in ancient China?
Once, in ancient China, someone figured out how to spin a fabric so smooth it seemed to be woven from moonlight. We call it silk. The strange part? It started not with a loom, but with a hungry little caterpillar and a leaf.
The hero of our story is the silkworm — really the caterpillar of a moth. It has one job and it takes it very seriously: eat mulberry leaves, all day, all night, with the steady crunch of a tiny eating machine.
