Where Does Silk Come from?

In commercial use, silk is almost entirely limited to filaments from the cocoons of domesticated silkworms (caterpillars of several moth species belonging to the genus Bombyx). See also sericulture. Commercial silk is made from the fibrous cocoons of silkworm caterpillars (Bombyx species).

Where does silk come from and how is it made?

Silk is made from the Bombyx Mori, a caterpillar that turns into a moth. The Bombyx Mori caterpillars live on a diet of mulberry leaves of the mulberry tree. Mulberry trees are fruit-bearing trees, usually found in Europe, Northern America and Asia.

Where does silk originally come from?

History of Silk. The production of silk originates in China in the Neolithic (Yangshao culture, 4th millennium BC). Silk remained confined to China until the Silk Road opened at some point during the later half of the first millennium BC.