Here are some of the employees drawing silk thread from the cocoons. After that the threads are blended, packed and pulled out into thin sheets.
And after spinning, weaving and dying and printing we end up with this.
"She Who Must Not Be Named" was in heaven. All those things to buy and no shortage of people to assist her.
Finally, laden down with silk products, nicely baled up for transport, we headed back to the buses and embarked for our next destination -- the water town of Wuzhen.