• n. Apparently a borrowing from the French "sériculture". It is the action of cultivate silkworms, the related plants to feed them and the processing of cocoons, in order to produce silk.

• http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300254388 (Silk Heritage Thesaurus)

• Silk bombyx mori

• Burnham, Dorothy. Warp and Weft. A Textile Terminology. Royal Ontario Museum, 1980; Simpson, John; Weiner, Edmund (eds). The Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1989. [www.oed.com]

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