The Silklab at Tufts is a misnomer in a sense. While the lab is working with silk, a textile humans have been using for over ...

Silk craft villages have dotted Vietnam for hundreds of years. They make silk by hand in a tedious, 30-step process. Craftspeople feed the silkworms every four hours so they spin brilliantly ...

Unlike worm silk, each thread of lotus silk starts with ... To make these lustrous golden strands, laborers must unwind a muga caterpillar's cocoon into a single, long, seamless thread.

The raw silk production in the country stayed at 34,042 metric tonnes (MT) till January 2025, registering an uptick, Pabitra ...

The story of silk is full of the extraordinary. First Paraguay and Suriname have caterpillars larger than any in Europe, found In Suriname in 1699 “green with a yellow stripe across their body” living ...