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 ...

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 ...

A farmer works on silkworm cocoons at Nagaa Awni village in Egypt in September. [Photo/Xinhua] BEHEIRA, Egypt — Nagaa Awni, located in Beheira governorate about 200 kilometers from the Egyptian ...

This achievement marks a significant milestone, with record-setting performance across nearly every tracked metric for parental silkworm lines and hybrid cocoons. The latest production cycle delivered ...

The expansive exhibition, on view through February 23, looks at how commerce, ideas, and religion crisscrossed the world.

In the shade of an almond tree, Zubayda Pardayeva began the age-old and barely profitable process of turning cocoons into silk that Uzbekistan wants to overhaul. With her expert fingers honed by ...

08:34 This helps to eliminate variations in growth rate and increases cocoon production efficiency. 08:40 This equipment makes it possible to raise approximately 60,000 silkworms at once ...

Now, thanks to an enzyme that allows silkworms to break out of their cocoons and fly away as butterflies, she is finally pain-free. 'For years, I took strong prescription painkillers and had ...

AOMORI--Is it a cloud? Cotton candy? An alarmingly large silkworm cocoon, perhaps? Named Youna—meaning “similar to”—the handcrafted lamp could be any of those things, or none at all.

This achievement marks a significant milestone, with record-setting performance across nearly every tracked metric for parental silkworm lines and hybrid cocoons. The latest production cycle ...