Don’t you think its a bit strange that there is not a single definitive line of text that proves that any Westerosi or western Essosi people farm raw silk?Thoughts? Fun fact – To harvest silk thread from the cocoons, they are boiled to kill the moth, who would otherwise eat its way out, damaging the continuous thread and thus its value. My headcanon is that the Naathi have a unique silk butterfly, seeing as they aren’t allowed to kill anything. Also see the Sarnori Spider Silk.

Not really. I think GRRM finds silk interesting when it comes to fashion and commerce, not so much the whole industrial process of production, because he’s writing a fantasy series and not a history of silk making. 

But I like the idea about the Naathi deliberately not killing the butterflies. After all, you want to avoid the dreaded butterfly plague. 

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