Researchers have found an eco-friendly approach that can eliminate the use of toxic chemicals in silk processing. Traditionally, toxic chemicals like sodium carbonate, sodium hydroxide, sulfuric acid, ...

Hannes Schniepp and Sean Koebley talk about silk as being either alive or dead. They aren’t talking about the silk of scarves and dresses. The finest garment-quality silks are made gently, by boiling ...

Silk producers based in Malda have demanded at least one processing unit be set up in the district and sought arrangements to protect cocoons from which the yarn is made. The demand was raised during ...

Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) on Friday inaugurated the first silk processing plant at Surendranagar in Gujarat. This would help cut down the cost of production of silk yarn ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich., June 23, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, Inc. (OTCQB: KBLB) (“Company” or “Kraig Labs”), the biotechnology company focused on the development and ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich., April 17, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, Inc. (OTCQB:KBLB) (“Company”), the leading developer of spider silk based fibers, announced today that it is expanding ...

During the 1920s, the small city of Hermosa Beach became the unlikely center of the West Coast silk industry with the arrival of the Golden State Silk Mills plant. Up until then, the silk industry had ...

The silk fibroin protein that silkworms spin into cocoons is prized for its mechanical properties. But the complex network of hydrogen-bonded β-sheets that give silk its strength and flexibility also ...

Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) on Friday inaugurated is first silk processing plant, at Surendranagar in Gujarat, in a move that would help cut down the cost of production of silk yarn ...

How many of you have planned to shop at Kancheepuram this wedding season? Take a trip down Gandhi Road and you can never miss out on the number of silk sari showrooms that display their best variety.