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

Divided into three galleries, the exhibition begins with simple embroideries used to teach the alphabet and numbers, and ...

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.

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

They have developed a special silk thread coated with a conductive plastic material. This innovative thread can harness the ...

A number of these filaments, 12 to 20, are gathered together and twisted into a yarn in the same way that cocoon silk threads are spun or thrown together. The artificial silk threads, while still ...

They soak the cocoons for up to seven hours to soften the threads before pulling them. This machine reels the silk. Workers then hang the threads to dry. Next, the threads are machine-woven.

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.

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 ...