Witnessed by: Unani

Raw silk (Bombyx mori), of the Bombycidae (Insecta) family. The mulberry silkworm, whose cocoon is spun of one continuous filament; native range: the mulberry silkworm, reared for its silk across China, Persia, Turkey and India; the fibre reeled from the cocoon. Globally recognized as abresham (ابریشم) in Persian, harir, ibrisam in Arabic, abresham in Urdu, and raw silk, silk floss in English. The part used is the raw silk fibre, reeled from the cocoon, degummed and cut into small pieces. Fine pale lustrous filaments, soft, cool and surprisingly strong, next to tasteless, giving a faint singed-animal smell when they burn.

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