They make silk by hand in a tedious, 30-step process. Craftspeople feed the silkworms every four hours so they spin brilliantly yellow cocoons. And turning those cocoons into silk is even more ...

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 ...

From these eggs will hatch tiny silkworms, caterpillars of the domesticated silk moth Bombyx mori, which will then set to chomping down on mulberry leaves and preparing themselves for the demanding ...

Silkworms reached Italy through Sicily in ... The minute end of the cocoon's silk filament had to be located and threaded onto a reel, which then unwound it from the water-warmed cocoon.

People have been weaving silk into fabric for at least 5,000 years. The delicate material, made from the threads silkworms excrete to create their cocoons, has been used for everything from the ...

We begin with these wiggly little silkworms in Nam Cao, Vietnam. They're responsible for spinning each of these tiny cocoons. Just one of them can hold almost 1,000 feet of silk. Here ...

Five hundred and fifty-two A.D. Nestorian monks, who would later become Emperor Justinian, brought silkworm eggs to Europe by smuggling them out of China. As a consequence, the silk industry in the ...

such as ‘peace silk’ or ‘ahimsa silk,’ allow the silkworms to emerge from their cocoons naturally, providing a cruelty-free alternative. This method not only respects the lifecycle of the ...

When walking into local silk reeling workshops ... rate of advanced techniques including co-breeding of small silkworms, and fresh cocoon reeling also ranks high among national comparable localities.

In Yizhou District of Hechi City, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, sci-tech enabled modern sericulture and ...