Healers have treated their patients with silk throughout history. Now they're harnessing its strength, biocompatibility, and ...

I know, I know, quite the imagination. According to the BioKIDS website, these silk cocoon structures are how various insects spin webs to shelter themselves. In this case, these belong to ...

They're responsible for spinning each of these tiny cocoons. Just one of them can hold almost 1,000 feet of silk. Here, craftspeople produce silk in a tedious 30-step process. It all starts in ...

They make silk by hand in a tedious, 30-step process. Craftspeople feed the silkworms every four hours so they spin brilliantly yellow cocoons. And turning those cocoons into silk is even more ...

BENGALURU: Karnataka is the leader in production of silk sarees and other silk materials in the country, but it will now take ...