Bombyx mori silkworms for the production of raw silk, has been under way for at least 5,000 years in China, from where it spread to India, Korea, Japan, and the West. The silkworm was domesticated from the wild silkmoth "Bombyx mandarina", which has a range from northern India to northern China, Korea, Japan, and the far eastern regions of Russia. The domesticated silkworm derives from Chinese rather than Japanese or Korean stock. Silkworms were unlikely to have been domestically bred before the Neolithic age. Before then, the tools to manufacture quantities of silk thread had not been developed. The domesticated "B. mori"
Bárbara Mori Bárbara Mori Bárbara Mori Ochoa (; born 2 February 1978) is an Uruguayan-born Mexican actress, model, producer and writer who started her career in 1992 as a fashion model at the age of 14, later she became an actress when she co-starred in 1997 on the smash TV-hit "Mirada De Mujer" with TV Azteca; then, she starred in the soap opera Azul Tequila. Her big break came in 2004, with the telenovela "Rubí" (a remake of the 1968 series) by rival network Televisa, in which she played the main character. She also has starred in several self-produced films and music