"Silk production consists of the fundamental coexistence of two kinds of production, the agricultural one and the industrial one. In the former, farmers rear silkworms, feeding them in such a way that they produce cocoons for silk. Afterwards, in the latter, the raw material is processed and transformed through machines that combine tradition and innovation. The reeling, twisting, weaving and dyeing turns thin silkworm filament into a durable, shiny, fantastic fabric"