Silkworm Chopsticks

Silkworm Chopsticks are made of bamboo. They are five inches approximately 16 centimeters long and are as thick as ordinary eating chopsticks. One end is carved into a point and polished until it is perfectly smooth and glossy. This is an essential tool for lifting and moving small, newly hatched silkworms.

Silkworm Feeding Stool

The Silkworm Feeding Stool should be thick and heavy for stability. The top surface is a little over one square foot, and the legs stand two feet high. A circular hole is carved into the center of the stool’s surface. Between the left and right legs, a lower cross-bar is installed, featuring a shallow socket that aligns perfectly with the hole in the stool's surface above.

Separately, a round wooden pillar three feet high is prepared. Two cross-bars are fixed horizontally and vertically across the top of this pillar to form a "cross" shape. The bottom of the pillar is inserted through the hole in the stool's surface and set into the socket of the lower cross-bar. This design allows the top frame to rotate freely to the left or right, making it extremely convenient to place a basket on top and turn it while feeding mulberry leaves to the worms.

Reed Screens

Reed Screens are what the ancients called bao original: "薄", a term for thin mats or trays used in silkworm rearing. They are woven from reeds and are suitable for blocking the wind and shading the sun. There is no situation in which they are not useful, particularly for...