Most of us are familiar with silk as a fine fabric that is made into neckties and dresses. As a textile, silk is highly valued because it is shiny and smooth, strong yet lightweight, and it can be ...

The harvest for Uzbekistan’s perhaps most famous export, silkworm cocoons, has begun in earnest and with the usual concern for rights violations that the ancient industry brings with it. Silkworm ...

STORY: These silk lamp shades are made from silkworm cocoons, using a process that ensures the silkworms are not harmed These women meticulously remove the silkworms from their cocoons using their ...

DHARMAPURI: With the intensifying summer heat, mulberry farmers have reportedly been struggling to keep their mulberry trees ...

Hannes Schniepp and Sean Koebley talk about silk as being either alive or dead. They aren’t talking about the silk of scarves and dresses. The finest garment-quality silks are made gently, by boiling ...

Forest department restrictions on tasar silkworm cultivation inside Pranahita Wildlife Sanctuary have alarmed 650 tribal ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The United States National Museum ...

In Telangana’s Mancherial district, tribal communities long engaged in eco-friendly tasar sericulture face restrictions from ...

A collaborative research team develops an absorbent multifunctional nanofiber adhesive hemostat based on a protein biomaterial. In recent news, there has been a case where a patient experienced pain ...

The harvesting of silkworm cocoons is underway in Azerbaijan, Trend reports referring to a source in the Azerbaijani Industrial Corporation (AIC) on June 8. According to the source, this year it’s ...

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