Thursday, December 08, 2005

Day 3 in Suzhou - 12/8/05

1. Entrance to a famed traditional Suzhou residence, designed
around a pond surrounded by roofed walkways and pavilions.
2. The central garden
3. Our lovely tour guides
4. Silk worms on mullberry leaves
5. Silk cocoons
6. Machine reeling silk thread from cocoons
7. Tour at garment factory, factory manager on the right
8. One of the work rooms in the garment factory








2 Comments:

Anonymous Tom Kuhn said...

So THATS how to REally make a silk purse. FASCINATING. Great Photos Bing. Off to
Tai chi class. Tom

6:38 AM  
Anonymous Bill Wolpert said...

If they use coccoons for the silk, how do the silk worms sustain their population?

9:07 AM  

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