It begins with a leaf.
The silkworm feeds on mulberry leaves, growing steadily until it is ready to spin. Sericulture — the raising of silkworms — has been practiced in the Huzhou region of China for over five thousand years.
The silkworm spins itself a home.
In roughly three days, each silkworm wraps itself in a continuous filament up to 1,500 meters long — a single unbroken thread. The cocoon protects the pupa as it transforms.
The cocoon becomes thread.
The cocoons are carefully unwound in hot water, releasing the single silk filament. Several filaments are reeled together to form thread strong enough to weave — yet impossibly soft against skin.
Thread becomes cloth.
Woven into fabric, the silk catches light in a way no synthetic can replicate. What you hold is the result of a living process — and generations of knowledge about how to carry it forward.
Generations of cultivation carry it forward.
