Mysuru: The time is ripe for establishing a full-fledged silk cocoon auction market in Mysuru district. In response to the ...

That's the silk. The silkworms spin this filament into a cocoon. Then the caterpillar begins its transformation. Except, this is when silk producers butt in. The cocoons are steamed. This cleans ...

A Monsieur Rollin lately exhibited before the French Academy, a silkworm's cocoon of a rose color; remarkable because the color was produced by feeding the worms upon mulberry leaves sprinkled ...

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 ...

True synthetic silk has been made by chemists, it is claimed, the product of the cocoon ei s ltel licte i every respect, chemical and physical, but this achievement, successful as it was as a ...

Dharmapuri Silk Cocoon Market, which is located at the Four-road Junction, is where cocoons are auctioned on a daily basis. Each day the market trades about two tonnes of cocoons. Over the past ...

The caterpillar, along with most others in the Saturniidae family, spins a silk cocoon. This is where it then spends its time as a pupa, the stage of development before the moth becomes an adult. The ...

Director Sericulture Jammu and Kashmir Aijaz Ahmad Bhat, Saturday chaired a meeting where in he set the roadmap for 2025-26 silkworm and Cocoon production. A statement issued here ...

Silkworms spin cocoons that silk producers eventually unravel and join to create the thread. Silk production costs have gone up with the introduction of synthetic fabrics like polyester.