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

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...