Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma expressed gratitude to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for officially recognising the ...

Japanese elders emerge from their homes to thank you for visiting, bringing emphatic bowing and crinkle-eyed smiles to the ...

Kanjeevaram sarees shine with pure mulberry silk and intricate zari work, crafted by skilled weavers over weeks. Here's all ...

Albanian women have long been famed for their stylish and colourful traditional attire that some still wore until relatively ...

Silkworms and spiders generate fibers that exhibit high strength and extensibility. The underlying mechanisms involved in processing silk proteins into fiber form remain incompletely understood, ...

The Chinese breed of silkworms, Huakang No. 3, forms cocoons up to 1,200 meters long-300–400 meters longer than the local breeds. In 2018, China-Azerbaijan cooperation in sericulture reached a ...

MANILA, Philippines — A touring exhibition of the iconic silk lanterns of Jinju, South Korea is on display until the end of July. "Lights of Korea: Jinju Silk Lanterns," running at the Korean ...

According to Qian, China currently produces over 80 percent of the world's raw silk and silkworm cocoons. In the museum, a dedicated exhibition area illustrates the lifecycle of silkworms and the ...

At the Bitcoin 2025 conference, collector Justin Sun gave Maurizio Cattelan's $6.2 million banana artwork to Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht.

Most spiders are territorial predators intolerant of company, preventing us from farming them like silkworms. While synthetic spider silks are rapidly improving – now reportedly rivaling the original ...