Slik Reeling India

There are few places in the world where silk is produced. And one of them is Karnataka in southern India. A long silk thread emerges from the cocoon of the silkworm. The finest, most beautiful silk fabrics are woven from (colored) silk threads. Photo report on the silk reeling industry In Karnataka, 1991.

Welcoming committee in a village where silk thread is reeled in the traditional way. Processed cocoons hang to dry outside the houses.
Welcoming committee in a village where silk thread is reeled in the traditional way. Processed cocoons hang to dry outside the houses.
Silk production and reeling is traditionally a rural industry.
Silk production and reeling is traditionally a rural industry.
Man and wife operate a manual silk reeling process.
Man and wife operate a manual silk reeling process.
Boiling water dissolves the glue that sticks the silk tread in the cocon together. The silk reeler picks a cocon from the water with his bare hands and pulls the silk tread from it.
Boiling water dissolves the glue that sticks the silk tread in the cocon together. The silk reeler picks a cocon from the water with his bare hands and pulls the silk tread from it.
Silkworms
Silkworms
Cocon residu
Cocon residu
Mechanized silk reeling process
Mechanized silk reeling process
Steamy.
Steamy.
A safer process to dissolve the glue that sticks the silk tread together in a cocon.
A safer process to dissolve the glue that sticks the silk tread together in a cocon.
At the time, economic development of the silk reeling industry was aimed at young women.
At the time, economic development of the silk reeling industry was aimed at young women.
Mechanized silk reeling process
Mechanized silk reeling process
Silk strands ready for further production.
Silk strands ready for further production.
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