Imagine a caterpillar with soft, fancy, velvety skin; that’s what a velvet worm looks like. However, unlike most caterpillars ... is very unusual and faster than the better-known silk spinning by ...

Unlike worm silk, each thread of lotus silk starts with ... After one or two months, they can collect the mature caterpillars. They put muga silkworms into jalis, structures made by tying together ...

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 ...