The diagram below contains information about the silkworm cicly of life and the silk cloth stages in the production.
Overall, the life cycle of the silkworm are in 4 stages while the process of silk cloth production have 5 steps in total.
If we look closer, the silkworm starts it cycle as an egg and transfrom into larva in couple days. The longest one is from the larva to the silk thread which takes up to 4 to 6 weeks before it moves forward to the next cycle. The arrangement of the cycle follows the exact order in order to be a moth. there is no allowance to skip one step. While in contrast, the silk cloth production starts with selecting the silk thread, boil , unwind, twist, weave and dye or it is also acceptable if after twisting, we can jump directly to dye process.
It is must for the life cycle of silkworm to follow the strict order to get to be the moth then the silk cloth production orders where one of the stages is being excluded.
