Life itself is a silken shimmer! Aarathi Prasad’s “Silk: A World History” is a love song to this protean material. The subject of silk production, a global commodity that sustains nations ...

Instead of breeding animals for their fibres, new technologies are emerging as transformative solutions to the challenges ...

The Silklab at Tufts is a misnomer in a sense. While the lab is working with silk, a textile humans have been using for over ...

Specifically, silk fibres obtained from the Bombyx mori silkworm are creating new opportunities by offering a widely available, robust, biocompatible and implantable material substrate, which can ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: Lotus silk is one of the rarest fabrics in the world, produced only in small scale across Cambodia, Myanmar, and, more recently, Vietnam.

The soft and smooth silk material minimized frizz and dryness in our hair, and helped our skin retain moisture. Additionally, the temperature regulating properties of silk kept us comfortable ...