Pat silk
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Pat silk or White pat silk, Mulberry silk of Assam (
Domestic silk moths are closely dependent on humans for reproduction, as a result of millennia of selective breeding. Wild silk moths are different (having not been selectively bred) from their domestic cousins; they are not commercially viable in the production of silk.
In India, the major mulberry silk producing regions are Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Jammu and Kashmir which together accounts for 92% of country's total mulberry raw silk production.[2] Karnataka produces 9,000 metric tons of mulberry silk of a total of 14,000 metric tons produced in the country, thus contributing to nearly 70% of the country's total mulberry silk. In Karnataka, silk is mainly grown in the Mysore district. The mulberry silk produced in Karnataka is called Mysore silk and Pat silk is the mulberry silk produced in Assam.
Sericulture in Assam is an ancient industry which was brought by the Tibeto-Burman
References
- ^ Assam (India) (1913). Report on the Administration of Assam. p. 18.
- ^ "Mulberry Silk". Central Silk Board, Ministry of Textiles, Government of India. 3 July 2014. Retrieved 29 January 2016.