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 ...

The development and successful testing of a method for unreeling the strands of silk in wild silkworm cocoons could clear the way for establishment of new silk industries not only in Asia but also in ...

A soft, steady rustling filled the rearing room at the Vietnam Sericulture Research Institute (VietSERI) in Hanoi on ...

Those precious silk garments in your closet were made by the caterpillar of a fuzzy, white moth — thousands of them. Silkworms spin a cocoon with a single strand of silk up to 10 city blocks long.

Colour is at the heart of Kashmir’s textile traditions, especially for the world renowned Pashmina shawls and Kashmir silks. Yet producing these rich hues often comes with an environmental cost to ...

A pioneering study conducted by Professor Fangyin Dai's team at Southwest University introduces a novel strategy for bone defect repair using flat silkworm cocoon (FSC) fiber scaffolds functionalized ...