When I first though of how to make silk, I didn’t think that it would be that hard with the right tools. Although I knew that the fibers came from the silk worm’s cocoon I still didn’t know how they got it unraveled. I also thought that they only made silk in China.

There are many things that I didn’t know about making silk. When I thought of doing this topic I didn’t think that it would be to easy either. I thought that I would have to go to more than one source to get the answer.

I have one main goal for writing this I-search. That is because it is an assignment. If I wanted to know about this topic I wouldn’t spend this much time on it.

In the begging I wanted to do the topic "Is biological weapons worth the destruction that they cause on the planet?". Then I thought to myself, "There is

My last stop was my grandma’s house. I wouldn’t consider her an expert, but she has been to where they (Chinese) make their silk. She also showed me the cocoons that they make it out of. That was interesting because I got to feel how thin that the strand were. She wasn’t a lot of help with the process, but she had a lot of other good facts.

On the first day that I started looking for the answer my English class went to the library. From there I combed the library for the answer. My first stop was an encyclopedia. The first random book that I pulled from the shelf was called Encyclopedia America. That one wasn’t much help. It only told me how silk worms are cultivated. That didn’t bother me much, because I was confident that I would find the answer still. In the next day in the library I skimmed through a few more books. One of which was titled Collier’s Encyclopedia. It was more use full then any past books. This one had a little on how to make silk. On the third day I gave up on the library. I figured that I had checked enough books.

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