This is my experience in Beijing, China in the Summer of 2009.
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At the Silk Brocade factory in Chengdu.
They are stretching out a silkworm cocoon!
This is how they make a silk bed comforter,
one layer at a time!
They sell these silk bed comforters too.
I was tempted but ended up postponing buying one.
That's Joan Caesar in the back helping to stretch out a cocoon.