{"id":196,"date":"2018-08-29T04:50:55","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T08:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ellesilk.com\/blog\/?p=196"},"modified":"2025-06-02T23:19:42","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T03:19:42","slug":"amazing-silk-facts-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ellesilk.com\/blog\/amazing-silk-facts-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazing Silk Facts I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have essentially known about the silk-producing process, and how to inspect the high-quality <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ellesilk.com\/silk-bed-linen\/flat-silk-sheets.html\">silk bedding sheets<\/a>, and I am sure you must have not heard any other amazing facts about the silk, share them with you!<\/p>\n<p>A silkworm multiplies its weight 10,000 times from the time it is hatched until about 1 month later when it has enough energy stored to start spinning its cocoon.<\/p>\n<p>The fluffy white cocoon spun by a silkworm is one long continuous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ellesilk.com\/\">silk filament<\/a> that when unwound is usually between 600 and 900 meters long or as long as 1,600 yards. That&#8217;s pretty long.<\/p>\n<p>Four to eight of the silk filaments are twisted together to obtain one strand of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ellesilk.com\/\">silk thread<\/a>. No wonder silk is so expensive!<br \/>\nNew to you, right? we have also others!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have essentially know about the silk producing process, and how to inspect the high quality silk bedding sheets, and I am sure you must have not heard any other amazing facts about the silk, share them with you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-silk-guides","latest_post"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellesilk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellesilk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellesilk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellesilk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellesilk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellesilk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6248,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellesilk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions\/6248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellesilk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellesilk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellesilk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellesilk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}