Feeding should be started off with 50-day-old shoots harvested at the height of three feet in the cooler hours of the morning. 60-day-old shoots should be fed to fifth stage worms. Thank you for ...

Craftspeople feed the silkworms every four hours so they spin brilliantly yellow cocoons. And turning those cocoons into silk is even more delicate work. In the 2010s, as cheaper, fake silk ...

Jammu, March 21: The Directorate of Sericulture Development Department J&K, under the chairmanship of Ajaz Ahmad Bhat, ...

Have you ever wondered about the intricate tapestry of history woven through the delicate threads of silk? From ancient ...

International Business Times unpacks INO Armor's founding, which was shaped by a near-fatal tragic event, and explores the ...

The new variant is being showcased at the 19th Toshali Mela, which commenced on Wednesday at Janata Maidan in Bhubaneswar ...

Five hundred and fifty-two A.D. Nestorian monks, who would later become Emperor Justinian, brought silkworm eggs to Europe by smuggling them out of China. As a consequence, the silk industry in the ...

Once upon a time, circa 2700 BC in China, empress Xi Ling Shi was enjoying her afternoon tea under a mulberry tree, when a silkworm cocoon fell from the tree into her tea. She noticed that on contact ...

Here's how craftspeople across the southern part of Asia extract and process the delicate fibers from silkworms, lotus flowers, and muga cocoons. We begin with these wiggly little silkworms in Nam ...

India exported 3,348 metric tonnes (MT) of silk waste in 2023-24, according to data from the Directorate General of ...

Jammu and Kashmir recorded a total cocoon production of 821.75 metric tonnes in 2023-24, which slightly declined to 814.18 ...