Artisans Angkor
When the worms have grown enough, they are put in baskets. From there, they will spin their cocoons in five days and will produce about three hundreds meters of silk each. The cocoons are then put in sunlight to avoid them undergoing their metamorphosis into mature moths. However, 20% of them reach the breeding process and the female moths will lay and hatch its eggs within nine to twelve days.
The cocoons are soaked in hot water in order to soften the sericin (also known as silk gum) which coat the fibres and stick the cocoons together. Silk threads are then unwound and reeled together to produce a single thread. Weavers at Angkor Silk Farm make both raw silk and fine silk that do not have the same texture at all. Sericin has not been completely removed from raw silk threads, which will give a rougher texture to the fabric at the end.
Stigmella hoheriae
The females lay eggs on the surface of a still growing leaf of their host plant. Larva have been recorded from February to August and are 2–3 mm long and pale transparent green. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine consists of blotches, mainly on the lower leaves. The mine is narrow and crosses over itself several times, but rarely passes larger leaf ribs. The frass is deposited in a straight, granular line medially in the mine. The cocoon is spun from dark brown silk (from larvae found on "Hoheria lyalli" and "H. glabrata") οr pale whitish silk (larvae on other "Hoheria" species). It is located amongst the debris at the base of the food plant. Adults are mainly on the wing from August to November. However adult moths have been recorded in February and from July to December indicating there are likely two generations per year.