muga silk is as valuable to the culture as gold. To make these lustrous golden strands, laborers must unwind a muga caterpillar's cocoon into a single, long, seamless thread. And to make just one ...

The caterpillars delicately spin threads to create their cocoons, and it can take ... the paler lotus version is that every single strand of lotus silk must be extracted by hand.

Silkworms are boiled alive to prevent them from climbing out of and damaging their precious silk cocoons, which manufacturers ...