Dr. Ben Allardyce and Ph.D. candidate Mr. Martin Zaki from Deakin's Institute for Frontier Materials (IFM) have delivered a ...

Craftspeople feed the silkworms every four hours so they spin brilliantly yellow cocoons. And turning those cocoons into silk is even more delicate work. In the 2010s, as cheaper, fake silk ...

Silkworm farming in China involves a fascinating blend of ancient techniques and modern technology to efficiently harvest ...

Undegummed versus degummed silk Traditionally, industry has used degumming to unravel the silkworms cocoon to produce their fibres. "It is also commonly used by researchers to facilitate 'unspinning' ...

A Monsieur Rollin lately exhibited before the French Academy, a silkworm's cocoon of a rose color; remarkable because the color was produced by feeding the worms upon mulberry leaves sprinkled ...

Dr Ben Allardyce and PhD candidate Mr Martin Zaki from Deakin's Institute for Frontier Materials' (IFM) have delivered a ...

Once upon a time, circa 2700 BC in China, empress Xi Ling Shi was enjoying her afternoon tea under a mulberry tree, when a silkworm cocoon fell from the tree into her tea. She noticed that on contact ...

Here's how craftspeople across the southern part of Asia extract and process the delicate fibers from silkworms, lotus flowers, and muga cocoons. We begin with these wiggly little silkworms in Nam ...

Director Sericulture Jammu and Kashmir Aijaz Ahmad Bhat, Saturday chaired a meeting where in he set the roadmap for 2025-26 silkworm and Cocoon production. A statement issued here ...