STORY: These silk lamp shades are made from silkworm cocoons, using a process that ensures the silkworms are not harmed These women meticulously remove the silkworms from their cocoons using their ...

Workers are busy at a silk factory in Xincheng County of Laibin, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, on Nov. 4, 2025. [Photo/Xinhua] China's silkworm cocoon production accounts for about ...

The development and successful testing of a method for unreeling the strands of silk in wild silkworm cocoons could clear the way for establishment of new silk industries not only in Asia but also in ...

The harvest for Uzbekistan’s perhaps most famous export, silkworm cocoons, has begun in earnest and with the usual concern for rights violations that the ancient industry brings with it. Silkworm ...

NANNING, Oct. 21 (Xinhua) -- In a simple brick house in Dacai Township, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, the floor was blanketed with a thick layer of fresh green mulberry leaves. On ...

Those precious silk garments in your closet were made by the caterpillar of a fuzzy, white moth — thousands of them. Silkworms spin a cocoon with a single strand of silk up to 10 city blocks long.

A pioneering study conducted by Professor Fangyin Dai's team at Southwest University introduces a novel strategy for bone defect repair using flat silkworm cocoon (FSC) fiber scaffolds functionalized ...

A scene of a Joseon Dynasty queen directly raising silkworms on mulberry leaves will be reenacted in Seocho-gu. Also, city children will feed wriggling silkworms with mulberry leaves and marvel at the ...