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Sericulture, or silk farming, is the
cultivation of
silkworms to
produce silk.
Although there are
several commercial species of silkworms, the caterpillar...
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manufacture silk at
around the same time. As a
result of the
spread of
sericulture,
Chinese silk
exports became less important,
although they
still maintained...
- the
larvae of the
mulberry silkworm Bombyx mori
reared in
captivity (
sericulture). The
shimmering appearance of silk is due to the
triangular prism-like...
- of Bombyx, are not as
commercially viable in the
production of silk.
Sericulture, the
practice of
breeding silkworms for the
production of raw silk, has...
- the
larger silk
producer of the two. The
Queen Sirikit Department of
Sericulture estimates that in 2013, 71,630
small landholders raised mulberry silkworms...
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authority on the
cultivation of silkworms, and in the 1830s
reintroduced sericulture to the
United Kingdom.
During the 1840s, she
corresponded extensively...
- The
Tajima Yahei Sericulture Farm (旧田島弥平旧宅,
Tajima Yahei kyū-taku) is
located in the
Sakaishima neighbored of the city of Isesaki, Gunma. It was the former...
- The
Takayama Sericulture School (高山社, Takayama-sha), also
known as the "Takayama-sha
Sericulture School" or the "Takayama-sha
Sericulture Improvement Society"...
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magnanery (French: magnanerie) is the site of
sericulture, or silk farming,
similar to a farm
being the site of agriculture. The
yeoman who runs it...
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leaves are the
preferred feedstock for
silkworms (Bombyx mori), and
sericulture was
therefore one of the main
reasons of the
expansion of the cultivation...
