Silk production, or sericulture, is the nearly 5000 year old process that supplies the world with its most prized threads ...

Charlotte’s Web didn’t go into great detail about the different types of silk that a spider can produce, but the video and screencap after the break give a rundown of how spiders make ...

Japan-based biochemist Ali Malay has long questioned traditional theories about how spiders make their silk. “The prevailing hypotheses seemed like magic, because, according to it, you suddenly ...

While spider silk proteins are something you can make in your garage, making useful drag line fibers has proved a daunting challenge. Now, a team of scientists from Japan and Hong Kong are closer ...

Randy Lewis: It's called dragline silk, and it's the silk that they use to make the framework of the web and the radii, but they also, the reason it's called dragline is that whenever they walk ...

The jade king could not make silk, because the emperor had kept the secret to himself. And so the princess decided that she would bring the gift of silk to her new people. She thought of a trick ...

But today, shady working practices and cruel production methods make silk an ethical nightmare. So, why is it so bad? And ...