At the time, raw silk became the country's largest export, as the silk industries in France and Italy had been hit by an epidemic of silkworm disease. At one point, Japan was the world's biggest ...

If you’re still looking for the perfect Bhai Dooj outfit then you’ve landed on the right page! We’ve curated a handpicked list of six beautiful silk suit designs to flaunt during Bhai Dooj festivities ...

The average time to crochet a doily is 12-16 hours from the patterns I’ve seen, but a very intricate thread doily could take ...

What just happened? Researchers in Sweden have developed a new type of conductive silk thread that can transform textiles into thermoelectric generators. The innovative material harnesses the ...

Phan Thi Thuan's family have been making silk for generations, growing and harvesting the threads from silkworms themselves to create luxury garments. But making lotus silk is different.

Now, Lewis and other scientists say that silk is so strong, it could be used in advances in artificial ligaments, surgical sutures, and hernia meshes. While other spider threads rely on one ...

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Make your own torans (door hangings) using beads, mirrors, and colored threads. You can also try macramé or crochet ...

“This changes everything we thought we knew.” Lidar is helping uncover medieval cities high in the mountains of Central Asia along the Silk Road where trade caravans, like this one depicted in ...

Now, archaeologists for the first time have mapped these intriguing highland strongholds in the country’s southeast — once a key crossroad of ancient silk trade routes — that were ...