Silk permeates art museums and the fashion industry. It has held our fascination and inspired our greed for so long that our ...

Atlas moth caterpillars also produce silk similar to the product created by domesticated silkworms. It is secreted as strong, brown, broken strands called fagara, and is used to build a cocoon when ...

Each contains a silk thread about a kilometre long secreted by the caterpillar of the domestic silk moth. "Everything is done by hand. The most complicated part is caring for the silkworms and ...