RE: https://mastodon.social/@theperpetuallycurious8/115878675199803776

🧵 Did you know a single silk shirt can represent the patient work of around 1,000 silkworms?

Each caterpillar spends days enclosing itself in a cocoon that is later unspooled and combined with many others to form fabric that seems to hold light within its threads.

If that image stays with you, follow the thread back to the full journey in the original article: https://TPC8.short.gy/sJNS1j5J

#Silk #Silkworm #Nature #Science #Textiles #TPC8