What is silk?
 
Silk is a continuous protein filament secreted by particular types of insects (sericigenous) commonly known as silkworms. Matured worms toss their heads in a figure eight, extruding a semi liquid mixture of protein, coated with a gummy substance called sericin from spinneret. The liquid silk thus ejected at the rate of about a foot per minute; becomes when expose to air, the fibre the worms use to create the fabulous silk.
Silk constitutes about 3% of the world textile trade. More than 30 countries produce silk, and India’s share in global raw silk production is nearly 17.5% behind China (79.10%).
 
Common name of silk
Arab- Kas, Khus,  Harir
Barmese – Tsa
Chinese –   Sec,Szu
Dutch-Zeide
English  -   Silk
French   -   Soie
Greek-Ser
German -   Seiden
Hindi     -  Resham
Icelandic- Silke
Italian    -   Seta
Japanese – Kinu
Kannada- Reshme
Kashmiri- Krimkas
Korean –    Soi
Latin- Sericum
 Manchu-Sirghe
Mangol –Sirkok
Malaya- Sutra
Malayalam- Pattu
Marathi-Resham
Parsian-Abresham
Russian  -   Sheiolk
Sanaskrit- Resham
Sweedish-Siden
Spanish - Seda
Tamil-Pattu
Telugu-Pattu
Turkey- Spek, Harir
 
 

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