Create Business Opportunities Environmentally Friendly Packaging
Silk fabric is soft and smooth fabric that comes from the work of woven silk worms for two days one night to form a cocoon or chrysalis. From this cocoon spun silk yarn and then woven into fabric. To produce good quality silk cocoons should be selected good quality too. Though not all cocoons produced good quality silkworm farmers. Then how the fate of cocoon, cocoon quality bad? Usually the farmers just burn it just because they have no sale value.
To create business opportunities that are environmentally friendly craft, we can utilize silkworm cocoon waste was still much use. Although I could no longer be spun into yarn, the hands of the craftsmen, this thing could into various ornaments. Silkworm cocoon waste can be made into a variety of crafts, such as flower arrangements, flower vases, earrings, necklaces, corsages, decorations for pencils, key chains, table decorations, and others.
By exploiting the natural wealth of waste cocoon into a variety of crafts can be used as a home industry that has added value, as well as help keep the environment clean.
There are two types of materials used for these creations the wild silkworm cocoons of golden and white silkworm cocoons produced by silkworms that are maintained through the media leaves murberi. Wild silkworm cocoon numerous in cashew leaves.
For waste water chrysalis into a wide range of crafts, first cocoon material shall be cleaned of feathers attached. After the cocoon had been cleansed and dried for a day and disposed of on the inside. To add color creations, the cocoon can be interesting textile dyes. After that, pupae can be formed according to the desired shape.
To create accessories, cocoon that is ready to direct his motives made as desired by using scissors and then glued together with glue. Motif that is often used is usually shaped flowers. Can be in the form of interest in the stalk to be stored on vases, accessories of hair clips, brooches, shoes or accessories for home interior decoration.
As for making decorative dolls for pencil more easily, because it does not need to establish a motive. Simply by attaching a round-shaped cocoon intact on the base of the pencil (as head). Then add the eyes, mouth and wool for hair.
In order for this cocoon craft business can last a long time, then you should look smart consumer tastes. Therefore, take some time for a trip to the craft center and mall to see the shape as what is being sold in the market, so that new creations can be created in order to avoid monotony.