They make silk by hand in a tedious, 30-step process. Craftspeople feed the silkworms every four hours so they spin brilliantly yellow cocoons. And turning those cocoons into silk is even more ...

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 ...

True synthetic silk has been made by chemists, it is claimed, the product of the cocoon ei s ltel licte i every respect, chemical and physical, but this achievement, successful as it was as a ...

The caterpillars delicately spin threads to create their cocoons, and it can take hundreds of silkworms to make a kilo of silk. But while the insects require careful looking after, they do most of ...

This delicate material, derived from silkworm cocoons, deserves attentive maintenance ... These multifaceted qualities make ...

The company said it is planning investment of tens of billions of yen in a bid to boost manufacturing and develop products that take advantage of the silk's properties. Unlike sericulture in which ...