Now a research group, led by Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, presents an ordinary silk thread, coated with a ...

Most spider orb webs are static: the spiders weave them and fix them in place and then wait for prey to fly into the webs.

The researchers tested silk thread coated with a conductive polymer, a plastic material with a chemical structure that makes ...

That alone has made it persona non grata for many. Thanks to the delicate nature of silk's threads, it needs to be treated ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...