Silk fibres from a silkworm cocoon can be processed into various forms, ranging from gels, strands, sponges and blocks, through to foams and films 7,8,9,10,11,12.As shown in Fig. 1, the ...

Emily Taguchi: How did you become involved in Cambodian silk making? Kikuo Morimoto: It started in 1980. When Cambodians began fleeing to refugee camps on the Thai border, I began volunteering at ...

Silk production, or sericulture, is the nearly 5000 year old process that supplies the world with its most prized threads ...

Almost all the things made by nature are precious and beneficial for living beings. That is why we give more priority to the ...