Phan Thi Thuan's family have been making silk for generations, growing and harvesting the threads from silkworms themselves to create luxury garments. But making lotus silk is different.

We begin with these wiggly little silkworms in Nam Cao, Vietnam. They're responsible for spinning each of these tiny cocoons. Just one of them can hold almost 1,000 feet of silk. Here ...

Beyond looking fantastic for your decor, silk can also prevent wrinkles and creasing across your face and neck as you sleep.

From these eggs will hatch tiny silkworms, caterpillars of the domesticated silk moth Bombyx mori, which will then set to chomping down on mulberry leaves and preparing themselves for the demanding ...

Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, Inc. (OTCQB: KBLB) ("the Company" or "Kraig Labs"), a leading developer of spider silk-based ...

a few specifically feature mulberry silk (named after the mulberry-tree leaves the silkworms eat) or silk charmeuse (“charmeuse” refers to the weaving, resulting in a shinier-looking silk).

However, learning how to wash silk properly can be simpler than you might expect. This delicate material, derived from ...

as the silk industries in France and Italy had been hit by an epidemic of silkworm disease. At one point, Japan was the world's biggest exporter. On this episode of Journeys in Japan, Sheila ...