Pat silk

The larvae of the Pat Silkworm's preferred food is nuni (white Mulberry plant: Morus alba) leaves.

Domestic silk moths are closely dependent on humans for reproduction, as a result of millennia of selective breeding.

In India, the major mulberry silk producing regions are Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Jammu and Kashmir which together accounts for 92% of country's total mulberry raw silk production.

[2] Karnataka produces 9,000 metric tons of mulberry silk of a total of 14,000 metric tons produced in the country, thus contributing to nearly 70% of the country's total mulberry silk.

Sericulture in Assam is an ancient industry which was brought by the Tibeto-Burman Kachari tribes.