How Is Silk Made Now? Today, the process of harvesting the eggs, rearing silkworms, and killing them in their cocoons happens continuously to keep up with the demand for silk. Domesticated Bombyx mori ...

Phan Thi Thuan checks a lotus stem that will be processed into a rare type of silk at a pond in Hanoi AFP / Nhac NGUYEN Vietnamese weaver Phan Thi Thuan hitches up her trousers as she wades into a ...

Silk is not typically associated with Africa, but the luxurious cloth has been produced there for centuries. Moth to Cloth: Silk in Africa, an exhibition at the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) now on ...