Through workshops, design studios and local industries, silk production continues to link tradition with contemporary demand, preserving techniques shaped over centuries.

The complex molecular structure of spider silk has been successfully copied as scientists spin silk from an artificial gland that mimics nature’s process of producing one of the world’s toughest ...

Researchers have succeeded in creating a device that spins artificial spider silk that closely matches what spiders naturally produce. The artificial silk gland was able to re-create the complex ...