Sustainable silk fashion | DW Documentary
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- Farmers in Switzerland have revived an old local tradition of silk production. First, they had to get reacquainted with breeding silkworms and growing mulberry trees for them to feed on.
Ueli Ramseier, co-founder of the ‘Swiss Silk’ association, breeds silkworms so that silk can be produced again in Switzerland. He started out breeding them in his bathroom, recently switching to his garage. This domesticated breed cannot live in the wild; it depends entirely on human care. Ueli Ramseier now has 12,000 silkworms. He supplies not only fashion companies but also medical firms with his silk thread.
In 2019, fashion designer Rafael Kouto won the Swiss Design Award for his collection, designed using sustainable Swiss silk. For the silk farmer Ueli Ramseier, it’s more than just a business idea. He wanted to demonstrate how to avoid the huge carbon footprint caused by silk imports from China, thousands of miles away. His goal is to convince more people to breed silkworms in Switzerland to make locally produced, sustainable fashion.
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seriously how do you do it dw!, i never even imagined watching anything related to silk worms, and non the less enjoy watching it, amazing production quality, and an amazing story to tell, bravo!
I appreciate how they care so much about sustainable environment and take a lot of concern about it. They do not only work for money, also care the whole planet.
Interesting… I love silk! It’s the main material I wear for tops. I found most of my clothes second hand… you can find silk shirts/ clothing inexpensive this way… it’s pretty pricey new.
i never even imagined watching anything related to silk worms, and non the less enjoy watching it, amazing production quality, and an amazing story to tell
Great Documentary! Seeing from Brazil, to improve my English and learn more, with the best DW Channel!
Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment!
It is great to watch. After watching this video, I wish to create Switzerland silk farm in Njombe.The conditions is favorable. We have mulberry trees but no silk worms
please doo.....
Somehow I had hope that they would be able to retrieve the silk without killing the moth.
Me too I was thinking to start my own silkworm business until I saw how they kill the caterpillar
@@jorgeandresurquijomunoz6097 It's an insect. You kill hundreds of bugs everytime you drive a car or ride a bicycle... and I'm pretty sure you don't feel bad about it
@@PG-3462 There is a massive difference between riding a bike and accidentally killing a bug, and breeding them for the purpose of unnecessary consumer goods and ending their lives in a rather brutal way. Silkworms likely feel pain, and being boiled alive causes unnecessary suffering.
This is like comparing accidentally killing someone in self-defense to enacting policy that results in the deaths of thousands of people. "People are killed every day in self defense, and you probably don't care about the lives of the people who died, so why care about the thousands of people who starved to death due to legislation that removed social safety nets which resulted in the starvation? Sounds like a double standard"
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Well killing is the plan, right? Like there is no vaxination without killing people either..
I had hoped that they would teach them to pick cotton. Mainly so I could say, "cotton pickin' silk worms." Which is fun to say.
Please show/tell where they get the next generation of silk worms. Obviously some must be allowed to turn into moths to mate and lay eggs. But I did not see any mention of this. Do they just keep importing eggs from somewhere? If so, where?
Indian silk sarees are so special. We have so many designs like Kancheevaram silk, Mysore silk, Banarasi silk, Pochampalli silk, Arani silk etc.
Too nice documentary video👍🏻👍🏻🙏🙏 about bold ,smart & beneficial attempts for Producing natural silks in artificial field laboratories..this video showed cooperating between smart thinking, Scientific agricultural techniques processing that subduing impossible probability through this amazing Projects far from its famous known area ( China 🇨🇳) ..DW always introduces interesting, informative documentaries
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26:29 RIP silkworms
Great Documentary 👍.
Thank you for watching! Glad you enjoyed it :)
I have hearing impairment and the background music makes it impossible to watch this video
Then turn on the CC option. That's what it's there for. 😺
Interesting...., so if they kill the moth, where do they get the eggs from? What happens to the caterpillars once they coil the silk?
I'd love to know how the decoiler works
They allow some to grow into moths and breed probably, and that keeps the cycle going.
Getting them onto a wooden structure to make cocoons might be wrong, silk worms don't like getting high, they should just reduce the head count of worms in one pen, then they will start cocooning inside the pen themselves, such is their own nature, following the nature's way is always most beneficial.
Thank you for spreading light on the fashion industry! I would like to see you talk about the animal suffering that producing fashion entails though. Animals being raised just to be killed and made into clothing, shoes and accessories. LVMH even has its own reptile farm to raise those animals to be killed "in more humane conditions" in stead of stopping the sale of exotic leather all together.
Sustainable silk in Cambodia is so good with traditional handmade that happened a long time ago.
Oh my!….
The beauty surrounding Janek’ farm is breathtaking….
People returning to small farming and crafts of all sorts seems to be the way of staying from pesticides and long hauling. Other countries also started supporting thousand-year old crafts that MAYBE could have been automated, but why automate? - let people be engaged, occupied, satisfied, making a living, respectful of the environment. Economies of scale have killed off towns and communities when those “scales” had to be closed and moved elsewhere, leaving thousands of people unemployed, not re-trainable and desponded 😢
There is definitly demand for silk.
Producers always will gain.
😂 he breed silkworm in his bathroom ❤ first then garage next so inspiring, no I am serious he have good intention , good man
Silk Fashion a very large market all over World.
Credits roll and I'm thinking, "Wait, where are the next couples to mate to lay eggs? Where do you get more eggs from?"
Me too, they must have some they set aside to make the next generation. Maybe these farmers buy all their eggs from a supplier, what supplier? Like lots of missing details here.
I suspect they leave some alive to mate and lay eggs. Not really surprising, right? That’s how farming has worked for centuries, before companies specialised in seed production. This is quite similar.
Nice video but the pacing and editing was a bit messy sometimes
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I did it in Thailand when I was little… I remember I hate it 😂😂😂… but from what I remember it’s yellow color…
Who has a garage, but says, tell you what, I'll try our bathroom first. My man clearly no einstein
Maybe they're one of those weirdos who parks a _vehicle_ in their garage. (Freaks...)
Every normal person knows a garage is for storing stuff you don't really need, & doing shop work on residential property. Definitely no Einstein!
;S ;P
Doing far more with his life than an incel like you.
Am wondering if they raise a few to breed so the loop is truly closed.
mmmm ,they look yummy, im not gonna eat crickets .
Hahaha.. that's a good one.. don't worry. Creeps like Billy Gates or Clown Schwab will make you... lol
Uzbekistan's silk is also high quality
Maybe one day we will be able to buy good quality silk without need to kill worms or spend a lot of money. Scientists made GMO goat that produces spider web proteins in its milk. And I wonder if this way we can make it cheaper.
is there any way to produce some food from dead pupas? that would be even more sustainable
Mmmm, boiled silkworm stew...
Worms definitely don't go into waste. Asian cuisines don't from using bugs. Even if they don't go on a dish they can be used to feed pets
in Korea it is very a very popular street food I believe
where does he park the car ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
Naively i wonder why cant they wait until the moths are out from the cocoon before they harvest the silk?
Because it marrs quality of the material. We could use GMO goat to produce milk with spider web, filter proteins and use it to make silk. But that would be costly and I haven't heard of a brand that would uses such method
Wouldn't it be more sustainable for fashion to recycle the plastic that is plenty in the fields instead of murdering lives?
Yes . There are some business focusing in that . But they are relatively small now. However Plastic or microplastics are poison our environment even put cells itself
Murdering lives...haha you people are delusionl, they're just bugs.
Most artificial fibers cannot be recycled back into similar material. Of the very few plastics which _are_ feasible to recycle, none of them revert to a form comparable to what they were before. Plastics recycling is a PR scam, to foist the burden of toxic waste mitigation onto consumers instead of those producing it.
There are organisms which can dissolve plastic into semi-useful (& still quite toxic) goo which can be reformulated into inferior grades of "post-consumer" recycled plastic... Unfortunately, these organisms are not terribly efficient at it, even within a very narrow band of relatively high temperature. The enzymes they produce _can_ be produced _artificially,_ but not by any means efficiently. Bacterial variants developed to feed at lower temperatures, can present _extreme_ hazards to practical deployment: The most publicized variety of moderate-temperature-tolerant plastic-eating bacteria, happens to feed & reproduce quite aggressively _in blood,_ so that's not great. Also consider the ramifications of moderate-temperature-tolerant plastic-eating bacteria, spreading in the wild; rapidly destroying every plastic seal, chemical storage barrel, insulator sheath, etc. (Andromeda Strain says hello.)
Artificial fibers already comprise most of the insoluble particulate in our lungs. It's in the water & in our food. After plastics manufacturers like Dow & 3M downplayed the dangers for generations, the fact that highly degraded microplastics become endocrine disruptors, & cause kidney & liver damage, is finally reaching widespread scientific recognition. Most plastic produced to date, is only now beginning to break down to these levels, & the rate of decay accelerates with time. Meanwhile, we still produce a larger amount of plastic every year. If we stop making plastic now, we'll have over 50 years of rising microplastics levels, just due to what we've already dumped into the environment.
Plastic is death.
It would but most fashion brands are narcisssist or psychos that don't care about human suffer and damage done to environment. There are a few exceptions in form of ethical brands like Allbirds, Vieja, SmartWool, Rich & Sporty, 10Trees or Robinhood
Please turn down the music, so we can hear the worms scream as they go into the boiler.
Production of cotton kills bugs because it recquires a lot of pesticides, hemp and linien sometimes use pesticides sometimes not depends on the farmer.
@@karolinakuc4783 Were you intending to reply to someone else? Your reply seems unrelated to my comment.
Every single western companies aimed to be ecological, green printed however all of them manufacture in commünist countries such as china or vietnam with no human rights.
True
True
Yes
A better way of putting it is we can impose environmental and labor standards on ourselves, but on others not so much.
Bruh, neither of these countries is communist lmao if anything, they have perfected capitalism by having the state have a massive market share in every sector, removing the many inefficiencies of the private sector by enlarging their public sector. Communism is when the worker owns the means of production, so think Coops, which isn't the state of affairs anywhere.
I was shocked to learn the pupae gets killed as part of the process. I know this is "only" an insect, but I find this so cruel. I won't be buying silk again.
Don't be stupid, it's just a bug.
When you factor in insecticide use, nitrogen runoff & fresh-water use, or else petrochemical byproducts, most other forms of fabric kill many _more_ living creatures.
So they harvest baby moths, fattening them up and boiling them alive. Wonderful....
They're bugs, cry me a river.
There is ahimsa silk which is cruelty free. But it is more expensive. But why bother when you can use moths to feed pets.
24:12 Really?^^;;;;
They are boiled alive
Yep, get over it.
And how many worms die due to pesticides for cotton or how many fish starve or get diseases from toxic plastic (each minute a track of plastic trash lands into ocean). Silk is really the most eco material. Right after is hemp and linien
Guys, we invented artificial silk a century ago. It's called spandex or rayon.
You can't compare the real thing with synthetic fibres....!
You need to pollute and destroy an environment to create that stuff,
Good for profit though and the most incredible delusional short sightedness in existence
Microplastics suck
@@jorgeandresurquijomunoz6097 irrelevant
@@apinchofsalt3487 only if you're selling to rich idiots. Functionality sells to the masses
I was quite interested in this process until they boiled the caterpillars alive. 😞
You can produce silk without killing bugs but it will be of worse quality
So cruel as all animal exploitation and killing over profit and human useless
Dumb take, get over yourself and buy the silk.
You can buy ahimsa silk that uses no animal cruelty but it is more expensive
You’re wearing silks not must different from animals skins because so many thousands or millions of millions of silk worm life. Something new heavy karma.
Pretty sure silk is an end of life cycle byproduct, they are basically giving the worms a better and healthier life then they would ever have in the wild.
I’d say it’s quite different. The lifespan of a silkworm is 6-8 weeks. Worms hardly even have brains… Mammals on the other hand can live for decades, and are capable of complex relationships and feelings.
If you don’t think those two things are incredibly different, I’d be interested to know why besides a blanket religious type of statement such as “life is life.” I’m talking about seeing the nuance and consider differences in biology, which there is a lot of in this issue.
They can’t live in the wild anymore their domesticated now
Why use silk when cotton, linen, bamboo and hemp can be woven into any desirable texture
@@iii___iii It is still better than wearing clothes made out of textiles coming from the petrochemical industry which are extremely bad for the environment during their entire life cycle, from the start to finish.
Cargo ship transport has a very low environmental footprint...... so this isn't exactly an impressive way to save the earth. HOWEVER, it is very cool! I wish them success!
Cargo ships are appallingly energy inefficient, & generally burn highly polluting "fuel oil" with none of the exhaust catalysis used by ground transport; in addition to those which illegally dump their bilge. Then there's the sheer inefficiency of sending materials & goods back & forth many thousands of miles. Cargo ship transport is not low footprint at all.
Agreed that producing natural fibers locally is a very cool idea. Those of us unable to wear artificial fibers, _need_ high performance organically sourced textiles like silk. Artificial fibers account for much of the insoluble particulate in everyone's lungs, too; so, the more natural fibers available, the better off we all are!
Locally cultivated silk. Low water-use cotton. Bamboo. Hemp. Materials of the future!
Cultural appropriation if not cultural stealing
Carbon footprint. Such a pathetic excuse
Excuse for what, killing a few ugly bugs? Get over it.
Found the incel.
What an audio mashup.
I hope he succeeds!
DW Documentary want two things- More European interbreeding and diversity and more global warming and climate change chat.'
Wouldn’t interbreeding lead to less diversity?