For many years, silk has been a celebrated product in Kolar district. However, in the current scenario, farmers are ...

Dr. Ben Allardyce and Ph.D. candidate Mr. Martin Zaki from Deakin's Institute for Frontier Materials (IFM) have delivered a ...

Undegummed versus degummed silk Traditionally, industry has used degumming to unravel the silkworms cocoon to produce their fibres. "It is also commonly used by researchers to facilitate 'unspinning' ...

Craftspeople feed the silkworms every four hours so they spin brilliantly yellow cocoons. And turning those cocoons into silk is even more delicate work. In the 2010s, as cheaper, fake silk ...

Dr Ben Allardyce and PhD candidate Mr Martin Zaki from Deakin's Institute for Frontier Materials' (IFM) have delivered a ...

Five hundred and fifty-two A.D. Nestorian monks, who would later become Emperor Justinian, brought silkworm eggs to Europe by smuggling them out of China. As a consequence, the silk industry in the ...

A Monsieur Rollin lately exhibited before the French Academy, a silkworm's cocoon of a rose color; remarkable because the color was produced by feeding the worms upon mulberry leaves sprinkled ...

Director Sericulture Jammu and Kashmir Aijaz Ahmad Bhat, Saturday chaired a meeting where in he set the roadmap for 2025-26 silkworm and Cocoon production. A statement issued here ...

Here's how craftspeople across the southern part of Asia extract and process the delicate fibers from silkworms, lotus flowers, and muga cocoons. We begin with these wiggly little silkworms in Nam ...

“In the last two years, about 6 tonnes of silk cocoon was produced in Pathankot. All support – sheds for silkworm cultivation, mulberry leaves, mandi to sell reared cocoons -- was provided to ...