ABSTRACT
This chapter is about changes in the gendered organization of sericulture and silk production in the northeast of Thailand, a region known as Isan. Silk is an animal fibre produced by caterpillars belonging to the moth genus Bombyx. During its lifetime, the domesticated silkworm, Bombyx mori, feeds exclusively on the leaves of mulberry trees, which like silkworms, are biotic attributes of the natural environment in Isan. Sericulture is the system of managing these natural resources that results in silk products suitable for consumption and exchange.
