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VIJAYAWADA: Former Indonesian president Megavati Sukarnoputri owns one! So does new age guru Sri Sri Ravisankar!! Ditto with foreign secretary Shyam Saran and seer Ganapathi Satchidananda.
慉himsa Silk? the silk clothes made without killing the silk worms is already making waves and animal rights activists Maneka Gandhi and Amala would not mind flaunting this silk saree.
Developed by APCO's Hyderabad-based technical officer Kusuma Rajaiah, the 憂on-violent?silk does not use the yarn produced by killing cocooned silk worms by putting them in boiling water.
Instead, the left over cocoons after the liberation of the butterfly are treated with detergent-like chemicals to make it dissolve into a blob of cotton.
The yarn is spun out either manually or mechanically to make silk fibre. The fibre is then used to weave a silk saree.
The process, no doubt, is more laborious and costlier. In fact, it takes 100 kg of cocoons to produce up to 15 kg of yarn.
At least 500 metres of silk yarn can be produced by boiling one single cocoon. In Rajaiah's method, the yarn yield is only 15 percent.
But, there are several people who refuse to wear silk clothes because it involves killing of silk worms.
The Kanchi seer, in fact, is running a campaign against using of silk clothes as it involves violence.
The 慉himsa Silk?will allow them to wear silk clothes without compromising on their principles,拻 said Rajaiah.
憫Rajaiah抯 innovation has been received with much enthusiasm. Even the handloom commissioner was surprised to know that silk could be made without killing worms,拻 said APCO vice-president and managing director Y S Prasad.
More research and development is needed to bring down the production cost and to make the Ahimsa Silk not just a collector抯 item,拻 said Rajaiah.
慉himsa Silk? the silk clothes made without killing the silk worms is already making waves and animal rights activists Maneka Gandhi and Amala would not mind flaunting this silk saree.
Developed by APCO's Hyderabad-based technical officer Kusuma Rajaiah, the 憂on-violent?silk does not use the yarn produced by killing cocooned silk worms by putting them in boiling water.
Instead, the left over cocoons after the liberation of the butterfly are treated with detergent-like chemicals to make it dissolve into a blob of cotton.
The yarn is spun out either manually or mechanically to make silk fibre. The fibre is then used to weave a silk saree.
The process, no doubt, is more laborious and costlier. In fact, it takes 100 kg of cocoons to produce up to 15 kg of yarn.
At least 500 metres of silk yarn can be produced by boiling one single cocoon. In Rajaiah's method, the yarn yield is only 15 percent.
But, there are several people who refuse to wear silk clothes because it involves killing of silk worms.
The Kanchi seer, in fact, is running a campaign against using of silk clothes as it involves violence.
The 慉himsa Silk?will allow them to wear silk clothes without compromising on their principles,拻 said Rajaiah.
憫Rajaiah抯 innovation has been received with much enthusiasm. Even the handloom commissioner was surprised to know that silk could be made without killing worms,拻 said APCO vice-president and managing director Y S Prasad.
More research and development is needed to bring down the production cost and to make the Ahimsa Silk not just a collector抯 item,拻 said Rajaiah.
