What is wild silk?
There used to be many, many types of wild silk. Today there are many fewer, due to the spraying of DDT (before its ban) for mosquitos in the jungles of Asia and Central America. These varieties of wild silkmoths lives in a small area in India. The villagers in this forested region gather the cocoons in the wild and then semi-cultivate a larger raising from the eggs of the wild moths that emerge. It is an exceptional and labour-intensive process to obtain the exquisite golden-beige fibre these wild silkworms produce.
