Silkworm Species, Cocoon Characteristics and Fabric Samples
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Yılmaz,
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S.
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2024.
Academic Research and Evaluations in the Field of Social Sciences-III.
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Silk, with its story starting in China about 5,500 years ago, is one of the most important textile raw materials in the world today. The cocoon, the raw material of silk, is an animal-based protein fiber produced by the silkworm. Silkworm breeding has been carried out for thousands of years, either domesticated or in its natural environment (wild). Bombyx mori (L.), also known as the silkworm or mulberry silk moth, which is from the Bombycidae family, comes from a single species. Bombyx Mori was domesticated in China around 4000 BC and has become the most commercially produced silkworm species in the world today. It is called the mulberry silkworm because it feeds on mulberry leaves. Apart from this species, there are wild silkworm species such as Muga, Tasar and Eri silkworms. These species feed on trees and leaves other than mulberry leaves.
Today, 90% of the world silk trade is made up of mulberry silkworm farming, while the remaining 10% of production is made up of wild silkworm farming. Silkworm breeding has always been seen in societies, especially in the textile sector, for industry, medicine, cosmetics or other purposes. In this article, the characteristics of mulberry silkworms and wild silkworms, the structure of their cocoons and the properties of the fabric obtained are explained with examples.
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Copyright (c) 2024 Emrah Sıtkı Yılmaz; Şahin Çaylı, Ebru Açık Turğuter, Ebrar Elveren, Selahattin Taylan, Salih Köseoğlu, Mehmet Yıldırım, Ayşe Yaşar Ümütlü, Turgay Toksoy, Özlem Balaban, Fazilet Nohut, Ahmet Küçük, Umut Turgut Yıldırım, Osman Ağır, Halil İbrahim Ada, Ezgi Tokdil, Erdoğan Keleş, Zeynep İskefiyeli, Fikrettin Yavuz, Berna İleri, Tuğba Konuk, Murat Nazlı, Bahar Moazami, Fatima Alwash, Mahmut Uçaktürk