There’s a spider in Britain that’s a tad unusual. Instead of spinning “thick” silk threads (in this case, thick means several micrometers), the garden center spider can spin tiny nano-scale threads ...

The caterpillars that spin commercial silk can make much tougher or more elastic threads, depending on how fast they’re forced to spin. If this research finding is translated into a marketable process ...

Chennai: Thousands of weavers of traditional Kanchi silk are without jobs as the silk industry, already affected due to the ...

In 1789 President George Washington wrote in his journal after visiting Connecticut that the silk thread manufactured here was very fine. By1836 at least three out of every four households in ...

A research group, led by Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, presents an ordinary silk thread, coated with a conductive plastic material, that shows promising properties for turning textiles ...