Director Sericulture Jammu and Kashmir Aijaz Ahmad Bhat, Saturday chaired a meeting where in he set the roadmap for 2025-26 silkworm and Cocoon production. A statement issued here ...

Craftspeople feed the silkworms every four hours so they spin brilliantly yellow cocoons. And turning those cocoons into silk is even more delicate work. In the 2010s, as cheaper, fake silk ...

Here's how craftspeople across the southern part of Asia extract and process the delicate fibers from silkworms, lotus flowers, and muga cocoons. We begin with these wiggly little silkworms in Nam ...

“In the last two years, about 6 tonnes of silk cocoon was produced in Pathankot. All support – sheds for silkworm cultivation, mulberry leaves, mandi to sell reared cocoons -- was provided to ...

A Monsieur Rollin lately exhibited before the French Academy, a silkworm's cocoon of a rose color; remarkable because the color was produced by feeding the worms upon mulberry leaves sprinkled ...