From the cocoon to the mulberry silk quilt handmade process:

One, drying

Silkworms from hatching to cocoon into a chrysalis, you need to feed more than 30 days, the chrysalis is edible. Pupae in the cocoon will slowly metamorphose into moth will destroy the cocoon, which will affect the quality of silk and later processing, generally use the drying method to prevent cocoon moth or deterioration, to ensure that the made of mulberry silk quilt is the best quality of silk.

Two, cooking cocoon

The dried cocoons into the water to cook through, generally boiling water can be boiled for 15-40 minutes. Can be appropriate to put a little alkali, cooking cocoon into the alkali is to make the original structure of the cocoon becomes loose, easy to reeling. After reeling, the cocoons will be washed thoroughly with water, which is a process that has been used for hundreds of years and is green and safe, so you don't have to worry about the health effects of the silk used to make mulberry silk quilts.

Three, reeling

Put the boiled cocoon into a large basin filled with water, tear open the cocoon with your hands, take out the pupa, and tear the cocoon into a small cap-shaped cocoon cap. The cocoon cap set in a semi-circular bamboo bow on the open, will be hundreds of cocoon cap set up, the formation of a large silk pocket, the silk pocket is used to process the silk quilt silk. The entire process requires uniform force to ensure that the late production of mulberry silk quilt uniform thickness, cover the body more supple and close to the body.

Four, drying

Do a good job of the silk pocket, shake dry, dry in a cool, ventilated place, dry, is the production of mulberry silk quilt raw materials. High-quality mulberry silk quilt generally require raw materials with few impurities, long fibers, natural white color, thickness uniformity, with natural silk aroma and moist luster.

Five, pulling the screen

Four people will cooperate to dry the silk bib elongation, according to the requirements of the specifications of the quilt core, slowly pulled into a suitable size of the screen. Then pull the screen layer by layer stacked together, until it reaches the required weight of the mulberry silk quilt, made a bed of bare mulberry silk quilt. The entire process requires a single screen pulling support and stacking of uniform thickness. This part of the most demanding craftsmanship and attentiveness, directly determines whether your quilt is uniformly fluffy, comfortable and breathable.

Sixth, the inner set

Mulberry silk tires are already a quilt forming, but must be fitted with an inner set to use. Inner tube cover is generally made of cotton more, will be silk tire into the inner sleeve, be sure to adjust the position, so that the edge of the silk tire and the inner sleeve around the fit. This is to avoid a situation where there is no core on the edges, especially on the four corners. When buying a mulberry silk quilt, check these details on the edges of the inner sleeve to see if the edges and top corners fit and are even, which is also an important step in detecting good or bad workmanship.

Seven, positioning

Positioning is to fix the silk tire with the inner sleeve to prevent shifting. Positioning has quilting process and hand-pointing process, however, high-quality mulberry silk quilt due to the net folding process, the silk tire is not easy to shift, generally using hand-pointing process.