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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@sengnumai6534 Жыл бұрын

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.

@nabih2588 Жыл бұрын

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!

@danubiomuller Жыл бұрын

Somehow I had hope that they would be able to retrieve the silk without killing the moth.

@jorgeandresurquijomunoz6097 Жыл бұрын

Me too I was thinking to start my own silkworm business until I saw how they kill the caterpillar

@PG-3462 Жыл бұрын

@@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

@ecocodex4431 Жыл бұрын

@@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" 🙄

@no_clot_shot1128 Жыл бұрын

Well killing is the plan, right? Like there is no vaxination without killing people either..

@johnmichaelbenson9060 Жыл бұрын

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.

@junebee5128 Жыл бұрын

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.

@GSSurry Жыл бұрын

I have hearing impairment and the background music makes it impossible to watch this video

@TheStockwell Жыл бұрын

Then turn on the CC option. That's what it's there for. 😺

@arbaz79 Жыл бұрын

Great Documentary 👍.

@DWDocumentary Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching! Glad you enjoyed it :)

@Reno10bon Жыл бұрын

Great Documentary! Seeing from Brazil, to improve my English and learn more, with the best DW Channel!

@DWDocumentary Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment!

@firstlast-cs6eg Жыл бұрын

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?

@mintchocolatelove Жыл бұрын

26:29 RIP silkworms

@amosicronery7730 Жыл бұрын

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

@95swt 6 ай бұрын

please doo.....

@mohammedsaysrashid3587 Жыл бұрын

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

@DWDocumentary Жыл бұрын

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@eddu463 Жыл бұрын

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

@pmtbreeza2478 Жыл бұрын

They allow some to grow into moths and breed probably, and that keeps the cycle going.

@hujiaming6151 Жыл бұрын

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.

@Overbelaste_Belastingbetaler Жыл бұрын

There is definitly demand for silk.

@ivyimogene Жыл бұрын

Indian silk sarees are so special. We have so many designs like Kancheevaram silk, Mysore silk, Banarasi silk, Pochampalli silk, Arani silk etc.

@cockatooinsunglasses7492 9 ай бұрын

I hope he succeeds!

@Sakda.168 Жыл бұрын

Sustainable silk in Cambodia is so good with traditional handmade that happened a long time ago.

@ibrahimhalilarslan5039 2 ай бұрын

Producers always will gain.

@StasherDragon Жыл бұрын

Credits roll and I'm thinking, "Wait, where are the next couples to mate to lay eggs? Where do you get more eggs from?"

@firstlast-cs6eg Жыл бұрын

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.

@somaghosh2960 Жыл бұрын

Silk Fashion a very large market all over World.

@Maria-EU Жыл бұрын

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.

@cherylcarlson3315 Жыл бұрын

Am wondering if they raise a few to breed so the loop is truly closed.

@Oisin2 Жыл бұрын

Nice video but the pacing and editing was a bit messy sometimes

@worldfoxtravel4312 Жыл бұрын

I did it in Thailand when I was little… I remember I hate it 😂😂😂… but from what I remember it’s yellow color…

@linhvo-gf7lj Жыл бұрын

😂 he breed silkworm in his bathroom ❤ first then garage next so inspiring, no I am serious he have good intention , good man

@aliihsancakir8406 Ай бұрын

Merhaba kolay gelsin hangi ülkede yapıyorsunuz

@ArtU4All Жыл бұрын

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 😢

@davidpiacenza9033 Жыл бұрын

mmmm ,they look yummy, im not gonna eat crickets .

@no_clot_shot1128 Жыл бұрын

Hahaha.. that's a good one.. don't worry. Creeps like Billy Gates or Clown Schwab will make you... lol

@gbt722 Жыл бұрын

Who has a garage, but says, tell you what, I'll try our bathroom first. My man clearly no einstein

@prophetzarquon1922 Жыл бұрын

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

@SalaciousBCrumb-md3lk Жыл бұрын

Doing far more with his life than an incel like you.

@azamatmatyakubov2924 Жыл бұрын

Uzbekistan's silk is also high quality

@michaelansbro1512 Жыл бұрын

where does he park the car ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

@karolinakuc4783 8 ай бұрын

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.

@SanBest93 Жыл бұрын

is there any way to produce some food from dead pupas? that would be even more sustainable

@prophetzarquon1922 Жыл бұрын

Mmmm, boiled silkworm stew...

@karolinakuc4783 8 ай бұрын

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

@alexanderpou9491 Ай бұрын

in Korea it is very a very popular street food I believe

@limweiming Жыл бұрын

Naively i wonder why cant they wait until the moths are out from the cocoon before they harvest the silk?

@karolinakuc4783 8 ай бұрын

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

@mintchocolatelove Жыл бұрын

24:12 Really?^^;;;;

@TheRolexseller Жыл бұрын

They are boiled alive

@connernickerson5509 Жыл бұрын

Yep, get over it.

@karolinakuc4783 8 ай бұрын

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

@prophetzarquon1922 Жыл бұрын

Please turn down the music, so we can hear the worms scream as they go into the boiler.

@karolinakuc4783 8 ай бұрын

Production of cotton kills bugs because it recquires a lot of pesticides, hemp and linien sometimes use pesticides sometimes not depends on the farmer.

@prophetzarquon1922 8 ай бұрын

@@karolinakuc4783 Were you intending to reply to someone else? Your reply seems unrelated to my comment.

@dkaoboy Жыл бұрын

So they harvest baby moths, fattening them up and boiling them alive. Wonderful....

@connernickerson5509 Жыл бұрын

They're bugs, cry me a river.

@karolinakuc4783 8 ай бұрын

There is ahimsa silk which is cruelty free. But it is more expensive. But why bother when you can use moths to feed pets.

@scerssvews1747 Жыл бұрын

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.

@ericknarvaez2351 Жыл бұрын

True

@parkgumstef5206 Жыл бұрын

True

@velezmarzc1229 Жыл бұрын

Yes

@samsonsoturian6013 Жыл бұрын

A better way of putting it is we can impose environmental and labor standards on ourselves, but on others not so much.

@franzjoseph1837 Жыл бұрын

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.

@LauradeVasconcelos Жыл бұрын

Wouldn't it be more sustainable for fashion to recycle the plastic that is plenty in the fields instead of murdering lives?

@jorgeandresurquijomunoz6097 Жыл бұрын

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

@connernickerson5509 Жыл бұрын

Murdering lives...haha you people are delusionl, they're just bugs.

@prophetzarquon1922 Жыл бұрын

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.

@karolinakuc4783 8 ай бұрын

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

@samsonsoturian6013 Жыл бұрын

Guys, we invented artificial silk a century ago. It's called spandex or rayon.

@apinchofsalt3487 Жыл бұрын

You can't compare the real thing with synthetic fibres....!

@gratefulkm Жыл бұрын

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

@voneyeva Жыл бұрын

Microplastics suck

@samsonsoturian6013 Жыл бұрын

@@jorgeandresurquijomunoz6097 irrelevant

@samsonsoturian6013 Жыл бұрын

@@apinchofsalt3487 only if you're selling to rich idiots. Functionality sells to the masses

@lisapettit7403 Жыл бұрын

I was quite interested in this process until they boiled the caterpillars alive. 😞

@karolinakuc4783 8 ай бұрын

You can produce silk without killing bugs but it will be of worse quality

@v.prestorpnrcrtlcrt2096 Жыл бұрын

What an audio mashup.

@sandiemacdonald100 Жыл бұрын

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.

@connernickerson5509 Жыл бұрын

Don't be stupid, it's just a bug.

@prophetzarquon1922 Жыл бұрын

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.

@katie4408 Жыл бұрын

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!

@prophetzarquon1922 Жыл бұрын

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!

@fleurdepapaye9635 7 ай бұрын

Cultural appropriation if not cultural stealing

@prasongmccray9359 Жыл бұрын

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.

@caspersams6010 Жыл бұрын

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.

@AlizaJayne Жыл бұрын

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.

@johnnyjayzeboomboomroom9163 Жыл бұрын

They can’t live in the wild anymore their domesticated now

@alcyonae Жыл бұрын

Why use silk when cotton, linen, bamboo and hemp can be woven into any desirable texture

@PG-3462 Жыл бұрын

@@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.