Six yards of silk unfurls, the fabric gently rustles around your body as you wear it, the pleats are stiffly tucked in, the ...

At the end of each spinneret is a collection of spigots, nozzle-like structures. A single silk thread comes out of each. Jan explains, 'Although it looks a bit like an icing nozzle, the silk is pulled ...

The story of silk is full of the extraordinary. First Paraguay and Suriname have caterpillars larger than any in Europe, ...

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.

When they weave their webs, spiders pull their silk threads. New simulations show stretching during spinning causes the protein chains within the fibers to align and the number of hydrogen bonds ...

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.

The silk thread was then cleaned, twisted (to prevent filaments from separating) and woven into fabric. Como's silk companies now buy most of their undyed raw silk (both fabric and yarn ...