Silk glue

To recover the silk, the pupae are killed with steam or hot air. By immersing the cocoons in hot water, the silk glue is softened. Rotating brushes catch the end of the silk fiber and 4-10 of the threads are wound together onto a reel and dried. Of the 3 000-4 000 m of thread per cocoon, only about 90 m can be unwound. The outer and inner layers are too impure and are used along with damaged cocoons in schappe spinning. 

Silk, or more precisely, natural silk, is produced by certain worms, caterpillars, and moths. The most important product is the high-quality silk that comes from the mulberry silk moth Bombyx mori Linne) the larvae use it to enclose themselves in a coccoon, which consists of 78% silk fibroin and 22 % silk glue (sericin). 

Silk Indmtry,—Silk is scoured to remove the sericin or silk-glue and adhering matter from the raw silk, producing thereby lustre on the softened fibre and thus preparing it for the dyer. 

Reina is using silk to decorate the lids of round tin boxes. She will cut the silk in circles and use fabric glue to attach them. The lids have a radius of 4j inches. What should be the approximate circumference of the fabric circles ... 

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The silk from the cocoon of the mulberry silk spinner caterpillar [Bombyx mori) has been the most important source of natural silk for textiles for more than 5000 years. The cocoons consist of about 80% silk fiber and 20% glue. After immersion in hot water to soften the glue, the cocoons are treated with mechanical brushes that unwind the fibers. 

When the internal clock inside a caterpillar (i.e. hormones) tells it that the time is right, it creates a pupa or cocoon made of silk filaments secreted by two glands on its head. The tiny threads are combined, as they form, with a gummy substance that glues them together. 

There is still some gum present on the silk fibers when they are spun and woven. This is removed during another degumming boiling. The total weight loss from dissolved sericin glue is about 20%. 

Most of all, in daily life, shelter, clothing, food, education, and recreation depended, and still depend, essentially on the use of natural polymers—wood, cotton, fur, wool, silk, starch, leather, paper, rubber, and a variety of resins, glues, and coatings. Around each of these materials a highly sophisticated art developed—entirely empirical and without any basic knowledge and, in fact, in most cases, without any concern about the material s composition and structure. 

Round off the end of the arrow and saw a notch in it three-quarters of an inch deep, to receive the head. Glue the point in place and bind it, while the glue it soft, with button-hole silk thread. You now have an Tndian bow and Indian arrows such as were carried on buffalo hunts and the war trail by the warriors of the plains a hundred years ago. 

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