Studies on influence of different cocoon drying on reeling performance and mechanical properties of raw silk

摘要

The influence of different cocoon drying condition on reeling and raw silk quality performance of Bivoltine cocoons has been studied. Study has been conducted on the green cocoon, steam stiflied cocoon one hour dried and fully dried cocoons. The cocoons' cooking has been conducted using open pan method with cocoon disc. It is observed that the reeling character like reelability (%) and cocoon character like sericin loss (%), and raw silk characteristics like cohesion, neatness have show better results in comparsion to green, steam and one hour. The result indicates that fully dried cocoons are most suitable for the production of quality as well as quantity of silk.