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05/18/2006

Worms at Work

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Silk worms at work at a Cambodian handicraft silk weaving center on International Labor Day - so no humans were working, only non-humans who can't help but work when they are worms spinning cocoons. Instinct.
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Looking a bit more natural than the pretty spinning wheel of spinning cocoons.
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Worms eating so they can spin silk for me. We have been to a number of silk weaving mini-factories in a few countries now. Cambodia was the only one that gave some credit and display area for the worms.
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The silk worm display room for tourists. I was not able to buy any silk in the silk shop they had at the center. I tried hard to like something but couldn't force myself.

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U can get a silk saree when u get to Chennai

Posted by: thanu | 05/19/2006

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