While many citizens have been figuratively cocooning during the COVID-19 pandemic, Empress Masako has literally been engaged in the practice, helping to raise silkworms at the Imperial Palace in ...

Traditionally an important role for women in the economy of rural regions, silk-making encompasses planting mulberry, raising silkworms, unreeling silk, making thread, and designing and weaving fabric ...

A sericulture revolution in East Africa, powered by Japan’s silkworm and silk expertise Selecting/breeding mulberry and silkworm species suited to Kenya, developing silk materials Kenya’s biological ...