Wondering how to identify a pure Banarasi silk saree? Experts share essential tips on checking motifs, fabric quality, zari, ...

Phan Thi Thuan's family have been making silk for generations, growing and harvesting the threads from silkworms themselves to create luxury garments. But making lotus silk is different.

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This happy accident inspired her to acquire these threads in abundance and fashion them into an elegant fabric. While silk maintained its high-society status over the next thousands of years, the ...

After 45 days of incubation, they are ready to spin a cocoon around them made of Silk threads. The cocoons are then boiled and spun into Silk threads. Phew!! Long and expensive procedure.

Instead of designs being embroidered onto the textile, Patan patola requires them to be dyed onto the silk threads themselves. Both horizontal and vertical threads are dyed, then cross-woven to ...

At the time, raw silk became the country's largest export, as the silk industries in France and Italy had been hit by an epidemic of silkworm disease. At one point, Japan was the world's biggest ...