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carefully examined and tied laterally at intervals to keep them flat and in order. The hanks are then twisted several times and folded once into a short rope which looks like a large piece of pulled taffy, weighing perhaps two pounds.
All this work requires dozens of persons doing routine but exact operations. At this point, no thread spinning has occurred. None seems to be done at the commune. Each thread, almost invisible and looking like a spider's thread in a web, is eventually spun with 10 or 12 others into a thread of silk for weaving. The surprising thing is the whiteness of the thread hanks. I thought of “The Girl with the Flaxen Hair." It is lustrously beautiful.
If you have done embroidery or knitting and have bought hanks of wool or thread, you can imagine the condition of the silk as it leaves the commune's factories. To be in the presence of so much silk and to observe the great effort and skill required to produce it gives one respect for the product, reinforcing its traditional preciousness.
Worms Feed Fish
Now why the fish at this commune? The worms' droppings make good tish food. Four types of fish are grown in the ponds, fed with grass as well. We did not see the details of the fish
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