Chinese researchers have allegedly found a novel way to solve long-term stealth coating integrity with an ancient silk-weaving technique called “jacquard weaving.” This method could, they claim, help ...

Spiders don’t just spin webs—they engineer them. By stretching their silk as they spin, spiders strengthen the fibers at the ...

Simulations showed that stretching aligns protein chains and increases hydrogen bonds, which act like tiny bridges between ...

PATERSON, N.J., Feb. 26 -- The first strike in the general move for an advance in wages among the silk ribbon weavers, who met in Feist's Hall on Saturday afternoon last, was made at 8:30 this ...

The broad-silk weavers called the strike on 25 February as a way of blocking an increase in loom assignments from two to four. As skilled workers, broad-silk weavers had fought since the 1880s for ...

Light shines brightly into the bare first-floor room of 113 Redchurch Street in Spitalfields, east London. "You'd have had ...

the team has developed artificial fibers similar to threads from the golden silk orb weaver, a large spider with a spectacularly strong web. Despite developing this "recipe" for spider silk, ...

Silk weavers in the province express deep concern over the declining state of their industry. Speaking to Pajhwok Afghan News, they cite a decrease in demand for handmade products and the influx ...

Zamzamzairani said the second silk weaving training centre was another milestone for the Maybank Women Eco-Weavers programme in Cambodia, which aimed to help Cambodian women achieve economic ...

Researchers long have been interested in spider silk because of its remarkable properties. It’s stronger than steel, tougher ...