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 ...

The Department of Sericulture’s production statistics for the financial year 2023-24, showcases substantial progress across ...

The silk floss for the yarn in Yuki-tsumugi weaving is produced from empty or deformed silkworm cocoons, otherwise unusable for the production of silk yarn. This recycling process plays a significant ...

In addition to facilitating the trade of silk, the Silk Roads drove the spread of silk production technology, in particular silkworm sericulture technology, around the world. ‘A World of Silks – ...

Suzhou silk is renowned for its fine beauty ... they have adopted transgenic technology for genetic manipulation, making silkworms produce fibre with better properties, including enhanced strength ...

In 2022, as part of a pilot project to check viability of sericulture, the state forest department had provided training and ...

once a major production area, to Yokohama, where the silk took off to the world. The shrine has deep ties to the silk industry. Once a year, silkworm farmers make offerings of cocoons to express ...

Mr. Bhat also inspected the mulberry nursery at Nehalpora, where he reviewed the cultivation and maintenance of mulberry ...

Both deputations returned, years apart, with mulberry cuttings, but only the Bengal one brought back Chinese silkworm eggs ..

setting the stage for a new benchmark for strength and toughness in enginee World's First Commercially Viable Silkworms for Recombinant Spider Silk Production Larger BAM-1 Cocoons pictured on ...