"Traditionally, industry has used degumming to unravel the silkworms cocoon to produce their fibers. It is also commonly used by researchers to facilitate 'unspinning' silk back into a solution ...

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 ...

Silkworms are the heart of one of the most fascinating natural processes in textile production. As they spin their silk threads, a delicate journey unfolds from cocoon to luxurious fabric.

That's the silk. The silkworms spin this filament into a cocoon. Then the caterpillar begins its transformation. Except, this is when silk producers butt in. The cocoons are steamed. This cleans ...

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

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.

The story of silk is full of the extraordinary. First Paraguay and Suriname have caterpillars larger than any in Europe, found In Suriname in 1699 “green with a yellow stripe across their body” living ...

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.