What is the rarest and most precious animal textile fiber in the world?

What do silkworms feed on?

What is mulberry?

What is silk?

What is fibroin?

What is sericulture?

Was sericulture widespread in Mendrisiotto?

When did sericulture begin in Ticino?

In what period of the year did Ticino families take care of silkworm breeding?

Is mulberry widespread in Italian Switzerland?

How were mulberry leaves prepared before being fed to the silkworms?

What is a leaf cutter and what was it used for?

How many times a day did the silkworms need to be fed?

Who is the silkworm (bigatt or cavalée)?

What are the life stages of a silkworm?

How big is a newly born silkworm?

What does a silkworm larva look like?

How is the larval stage of the silkworm divided?

What does the molt consist of?

How much does the larva grow during its five instars?

What color is the cocoon?

What does the chrysalis stage in the life of the silkworm consist of?

What is sfarfallatura?

What does the silkworm butterfly look like?

When and how do mating and egg-laying occur?

Is the silkworm a fragile animal and subject to disease?

Does the female or male silkworm live longer?

What are the main silkworm diseases?

Where were silkworm eggs purchased in Ticino?

How were silkworm eggs sold?

What precaution was taken to select silkworm eggs?

How were silkworm eggs brooded?

What operations had to be carried out when the eggs hatched?

What is the small silkworm basket and what was it used for?

What is the silkworm farm and what was its function?

What is perforated paper (carte de cavalée) and how was it used?

How long does it take for silkworm eggs to hatch?

When and how does the larva build the cocoon (the galéta)?

What is an animal textile fiber?

What is the "bosco"and what is its function?

At what point in the silkworm's life did man intervene to recover the silk thread and subsequently process it?

How long can a single thread from a cocoon grow?

How many cocoons were needed to make 1 kg of silk?

Was silk processed at home?

How did the silk industry develop in Ticino?

What were the main spinning mills in Mendrisiotto?

Who worked mainly in the spinning mills?

How did the silk spinning process take place in the silk mill?

What operations take place after silk spinning?

How is silk dyed?

What was done with the waste from silk processing?

How was silk processed to turn it into fishing line?

What is the reason for the decline of the silk industry in Ticino?