Blog: Meeting the Silk Worms

…”You might just get an inkling then, of my thrill to meet them.  The main reason for visiting Vietnam was to find these silk worms and learn more about how silk is produced.  China would be a more obvious place to start, the number one world leader of silk production and the origin of silk for my scarves.  But it’s Vietnam at number six, that would finally sway me to get over to South East Asia, the landscape and colourful textiles following next on my list of reasons to go, and so I set off last November to explore.”  Read more