Si-Ling-Chi, the Empress of China, must have faced numerous challenges while developing an adequate process to develop silk fabric. In the process of making an adequate process to develop the silk she also introduced the science of silk production called sericulture. In sericulture there are the many steps of the development of the silk. These tedious processes were extremely hard to invent. The first part of the process is to handpick cocoons off trees and place them in an oven to kill the silkworm without damaging the silk. After the silkworm is killed the cocoon is then soaked in water to make it easier to find the end of the thread. The cocoons after soaked are ready to be put through the spinning machine. Since one thread is to small the combination of eight silk threads are put through spinning machine all at once and out comes one thread of silk. The silk can be combined with more threads to make it thicker and the desired color can be reached by simply adding dye to the threads.
		This process is very tedious and complicated even today with modern machinery. Imagine how complicated the process would have been without electricity and modern machines about four thousand years ago.
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