The Mystery of Silk

SEE HERE This is a brief Delancey Place posting on the fascinating history of silk and the fragile nature of the silk worm.  It seems to me that there is a mystery wrapped up in the nature of the silk-worm which cannot exist in nature.  How long did its domestication have to go before this dependency on man was fully expressed?  It is difficult to see how such a fragile creature could always have been so fragile else it would not exist at all.  We are surrounded by mysteries and magic.  It is only necessary to open our eyes to see it.