For millennia, Silk Road trade routes connected Chinese silk to the rest of the world, powering global demand for the premium natural material. But while silk holds significant innovation potential ...

As China's only national-level Song Dynasty (960-1279) brocade inheritor, Qian has been seeking creative breakthroughs such as China-West silk culture exchanges to promote the silk art that ...

The process of harvesting these cocoons for silk is called sericulture, and has existed for thousands of years.Essentially, farmers create an artificial environment for the moths to lay their eggs on ...

Invented in China around 5,600 years ago, silk was the slipperiest, most mysterious material in the ancient world. Fashioned from the twisted threads of the cocoons of the mulberry silkworm, the ...

Now, for the first time, researchers from China have coaxed pure spider silk out of genetically modified silkworms. The material is six times as tough as the Kevlar used in bulletproof vests, the ...