The harvest for Uzbekistan’s perhaps most famous export, silkworm cocoons, has begun in earnest and with the usual concern for rights violations that the ancient industry brings with it. Silkworm ...

The development and successful testing of a method for unreeling the strands of silk in wild silkworm cocoons could clear the way for establishment of new silk industries not only in Asia but also in ...

As has always happened at the end of every May, Nasiba Barkasheva’s home burst with frenetic activity as the silkworm cocoon harvest reached its conclusion. Neighbors, friends and relatives in Boyovul ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE) in Singapore has developed a way to replace the traditional dying process necessary to make colored silk. A simple dietary ...

A scene of a Joseon Dynasty queen directly raising silkworms on mulberry leaves will be reenacted in Seocho-gu. Also, city children will feed wriggling silkworms with mulberry leaves and marvel at the ...

When they decided to spin their own silk, three area spinners and weavers went right to the source. That would be tiny silkworm eggs, which are the size of and a few shades lighter gray than poppy ...