reblololo:Liu Zheng, Xinjang Girl Working In Textile Factory, Hetian, Xinjang Province, China, 1996T
reblololo:Liu Zheng, Xinjang Girl Working In Textile Factory, Hetian, Xinjang Province, China, 1996That’s a silk factory. I’ve been to many of these in China (and let me tell you, those places are not only steaming hot but the machines are loud as hell, you can’t hear yourself shouting and many workers develop hearing impairments). The cocoons of the silkworms are placed in steaming water and unraveled in parallel, so that many individual silk threads are spun together to form a single thread for fabric. When a cocoon is fully unraveled, the dead silkworm is discarded and the worker grabs another cocoon from the bucket, finds the end of the silk thread, hooks it up to the machine, and away it goes. It’s one of the most beautiful, sought after, glamorous textiles in the world, but producing it is perhaps a bit less glamorous. -- source link