Sentence examples for the cocoons from inspiring English sources

The villagers sell the cocoons to middlemen companies that resell the cocoons to factories.

The silk yarn that forms the cocoons is washed, dyed and eventually woven.

Some coarse silks are produced from the cocoons of large wild silkworm species.

"It is difficult to see the cocoons on the trees," he said.

Similarly, peoples from northwestern Mexico make leg rattles from the cocoons of the saturniid moth; the cocoons are dried, filled with seeds or bits of broken seashells, sewn shut, and strung on a cord.

The larvae spun cocoons, and the cocoons were spun into silk, and the silk traveled the world.

These areas, which have a long history of sericulture, yield a consistently high quality of silk from the cocoons.

Leave caterpillars that have puffy ricelike grains on their backs: these are the cocoons of beneficial wasps that parasitize hornworms.

Removing this layer makes it easy to unfurl long strands of silk from the cocoons, the study's authors report.

Researchers from England and Kenya have discovered a way to remove the mineral layer that coats the cocoons of wild silkworms using an acidic solution.

As I watched her belly, I wondered whether the chromosomes in there were normal, whether the cocoons were wriggling somewhere deep inside her.