Production of silk strings for traditional Japanese instruments such as the shamisen and koto is at its seasonal peak in this ...
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.
Now, Lewis and other scientists say that silk is so strong, it could be used in advances in artificial ligaments, surgical sutures, and hernia meshes. While other spider threads rely on one ...
At the end of each spinneret is a collection of spigots, nozzle-like structures. A single silk thread comes out of each. Jan explains, 'Although it looks a bit like an icing nozzle, the silk is pulled ...