Silk production is an increasingly high-tech business in India.

Five years after it collapsed under Taliban rule, the once-thriving silk industry in the Swat valley of northwest Pakistan is still in shreds, leaving thousands without work and entrepreneurs like ...

Our part of New Hampshire has long been associated with textile manufacturing, cotton and wool – but silk? I associate silk with China, or at least warmer places than this where they can grow mulberry ...

Program in West Pittston looks back at era when more than 25 area mills employed thousands of women. Bob and Nancy Eble of Harding look over an album of photos of old silk mills in West Pittston. Fred ...

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 ...

In the heart of the Ferghana Valley, the melting of the winter snows heralds more than the coming of spring -- it's the beginning of "cocoon season." From the end of April to late May, local farmers ...

The FINANCIAL — The history of silk production in Georgia can be explored in State Silk Museum located in Tbilisi. Owing to the exhibition of different equipment and silk fabrics, it is possible to ...