A place or establishment where silkworms are raised for the production of silk cocoons; a silk farm.
From 'cocoon' plus the suffix '-ery' (from Old French, meaning a place where something is made or happens). The term was especially used in sericulture from the 1800s onward.
Silkworms eat only mulberry leaves and will refuse any other food—so running a cocoonery meant maintaining vast mulberry plantations alongside your worm beds. It was a complete agricultural ecosystem dedicated to luxury fabric.
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