How is silk made?
Sadly, a moth must die for it to be made. To make silk, the silk cocoons are boiled with the growing moth still inside. The worms are boiled alive in order to harvest the silk from their cocoons. After boiling,
"[t]he silk is then unbound from the cocoon by softening the sericin and then delicately and carefully unwinding, or ‘reeling’ the filaments from 4 – 8 cocoons at once, sometimes with a slight twist, to create a single strand." (Source)
