{"id":3782,"date":"2015-05-23T06:44:03","date_gmt":"2015-05-23T06:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/livefoodtravel.com\/?p=3782"},"modified":"2015-05-23T06:44:03","modified_gmt":"2015-05-23T06:44:03","slug":"sericulture-tour-with-tracy-and-michael","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/livefoodtravel.com\/?p=3782","title":{"rendered":"Sericulture Tour with Tracy and Michael"},"content":{"rendered":"

This past Wednesday I participated in another Shanghai and Beyond tour. This one was a whole day on sericulture – silkworm farming.<\/span><\/p>\n

We visited a silk bedding factory, a family that raises the worms and then a mulberry orchard. <\/p>\n

I realized how little I knew about silk!<\/p>\n

Did you know that silkworms are blind?<\/p>\n

That 8000 cocoons are needed to created 3lbs of silk floss?<\/p>\n

That this type of silkworm only eats mulberry leaves?<\/p>\n

That there is a Spring and Fall season? And that the Spring silk is more expensive because the worms have less predators in the Spring, thus producing stronger silk?<\/p>\n

It was a great day with great people!<\/p>\n

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Michael and the factory owner.<\/p><\/div>

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Aren’t they cute!<\/p><\/div>  

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The owner’s home whete we had lunch<\/p><\/div>  

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Examples of the cocoons<\/p><\/div>  

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Spreding out the silk to make a duvet<\/p><\/div>  

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Quite odd – in the bathhroom they had a turtle and some eels. Maybe for dinner?<\/p><\/div>  \"\"<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This past Wednesday I participated in another Shanghai and Beyond tour. This one was a whole day on sericulture – silkworm farming. We visited a silk bedding factory, a family that raises the worms and then a mulberry orchard.  I realized how little I knew about silk! Did you know that silkworms are blind? That … Continue reading »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2,9,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-food","category-live","category-shanghai","category-travel","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/livefoodtravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/livefoodtravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/livefoodtravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livefoodtravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livefoodtravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/livefoodtravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3783,"href":"https:\/\/livefoodtravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3782\/revisions\/3783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/livefoodtravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livefoodtravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livefoodtravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}