Spider silk, already known for its exceptional strength, reveals an astonishing manufacturing process. Researchers have ...

weaves dress silks of a quality equal to those woven by hand, and at a very much more rapid rate, and is doubtless destined to become largely identified with the manufacture of silk dress goods ...

All it takes is sleeping on a satin pillowcase to improve my hair and skin in the AM -- and it's approved by my ...

It's imperative to understand that silk and satin are extremely different things: silk is a fiber, while satin is a weave ...

When they weave their webs, spiders pull their silk threads. New simulations show stretching during spinning causes the protein chains within the fibers to align and the number of hydrogen bonds ...

Pabitra Margherita, who studied textiles in college and is now the Union Minister of State for Textiles, walked as the showstopper during the showcase of India's sustainable heritage weaves at the ...

Spiders make their webs from silk, a natural fibre made of protein. Not only does spider silk combine the useful properties of high tensile strength and extensibility, it can be beautiful in its own ...