Non tutti i bruchi diventano farfalle - Piemonte Feel

science and nature

Exhibits

Non tutti i bruchi diventano farfalle

Caraglio

Il Filatoio, Sala delle Colonne

from 15.03.2008 to 15.06.2008

What is silk? How is it created? How does it become a thread? The exhibit, “Non tutti i bruchi diventano farfalle” answers all of these questions through a research trip into the history of silk production. The first section reconstructs the route traveled by “Bombyx mori” from the East to the West, until his arrival to our peninsula and to Piemonte. The second part, technical and didactical, illustrates the way silk worms are farmed, the life cycle of butterflies, and the varieties of the Bombyx mori. A “multi-media” table allows the public to follow the life of silk worms from closed up inside an egg to the formation of the cocoon. Historical film work acts as a backdrop to the objects in a manner that allows for an immediate understanding of them, even by non-experts.

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Non tutti i bruchi diventano farfalle