In a significant initiative to strengthen the traditional carpet industry of Kashmir, the Indian Institute of Carpet Technology (IICT), Srinagar has launched a two-month short term skill upgradation ...

One of the most advanced fighter jets in the U.S. Air Force’s arsenal faces an engineering problem which an ancient Chinese silk-weaving tactic may solve. The Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor remains the ...

PATERSON – A group of opera singers paid close attention as Paterson museum director Jack Destefano showed them an early 20th century silk-weaving machine and explained how it worked. One by one, ...

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, Vol. 69, No. 3 (March 2015), pp. 449-458 (10 pages) Understanding the maintenance and evolution of complex group behavioural systems has broad significance to our ...

Silk is one of the oldest and most valuable fabrics in the world. The smooth, durable fabric is made by harvesting the natural filament from the cocoons of silkworms, then dyeing, spinning, and ...

Spiders don't have wings to fly, but some can weave 10-foot-long silk parachutes to float through the air, researchers recently discovered. Crab spiders, which are about 5 millimeters long and can ...

Cambodia’s ancient handwoven silk industry, once among the world’s finest, was fading into oblivion before Japanese textiles expert Kikuo Morimoto came along. In a country racked by poverty and the ...