First, choose cocoons

When making handmade silk quilts, choose spring silkworm cocoons, because the mulberry leaves are tender in spring, and the silk made is smoother. Shuanggong cocoon refers to a cocoon with two or more pupae in it, which can't be reeled, but it is the best product for making silk quilts.

2. Cooking cocoons

Cooking in a special container is a degreasing process. At last, most sericin on the surface falls off and the weight of silk is reduced by half. After degreasing, the silk quilt is not easy to harden and can be turned over.

Third, cocoon peeling

Peel off the cocoon with nails, take out the silkworm chrysalis, spread the cocoon on your hand, remove the silkworm chrysalis and its black peeling skin (some quilts will have small black spots, that is, this thing has not been picked clean), fold it to 5-6 layers, take it down and gently pull it into square silk pieces.

fourth, opening cotton

opening means opening and pulling, and cotton means silk cotton pocket. Put the silk pieces on an arched bamboo tool, stack them to 5~6 layers and take them off to form wet mulberry silk cotton pockets.

v. drying cotton

Dehydrate the wet silk cotton bag with a dehydrator, then string it with nylon thread and take it to the sun to dry. Be sure to take it off very dry, otherwise the silk will not be so soft.

VI. Stretching

Tear a gap in the sun-dried cotton pocket and pull it into a piece of cotton. Four people pull the four ends of the piece of cotton and pull it into layers of silk cotton with great effort.

VII. Turning over the quilt

Fold the pulled soft silk wadding layer by layer to make the quilt core. Use cotton or silk as quilt cover or quilt cover. When inserting the quilt core into the quilt cover, fix the thread around the inside first, and properly position the quilt cover after turning it over to ensure that the silk quilt will not slide and deform.

VIII. The following is the finished silk quilt.