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 ...

Instead of breeding animals for their fibres, new technologies are emerging as transformative solutions to the challenges ...

and the final product can cost 10 times as much as regular silk. So just how is it made, and what makes it so expensive? Phan Thi Thuan's family have been making silk for generations, growing and ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: Humans have been making silk for centuries. It's a coveted textile for gowns, sheets, and robes. But why is it so expensive? Silk is the product ...

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 ...

He briefly considered metal wires, layered metal sheets, and layered “goldbeater’s skin”, which is a material made from ox intestine. However, he devoted most of his attention to silk.

Because satin is a weave pattern, you can have a satin fabric made out of silk fibers. Therefore, a satin pillowcase can ...

Spiders make their webs from silk, a natural fibre made of protein. Not only does spider silk combine the useful properties of high tensile strength and extensibility, it can be beautiful in its own ...