The practice of handmade silk weaving has disappeared from much of the world, but continues to be practiced by thousands of people in Northeastern Thailand. However, as the Thai economy becomes increasingly embedded into global flows and networks of commodities, capital and culture, there are worries that silk weaving as a practice will either cease to be reproduced or will have to radically ch...

The rural agro-based mulberry sericulture industry occupies cultivation of food plants, rearing silkworms, conducting silk reeling, twisting, dyeing, weaving etc., and provides continuous employment to 6817 thousand people in India. The current annual production of 16360 MTs of mulberry raw silk and proportionate consumption of food plants in 170 thousand hectares spread over 51 thousand villag...

Sericulture is an art of rearing silkworms to produce silk. This agro-based rural industry helps our economy and generates higher income employment. The secondary time series data for 20 years i.e.,1999-2000 2018-19 regarding production export quantity value were collected from various issues Central Silk Board, Bangalore, APEDA FAOSTAT. entire was equally divided into two periods. analysed wit...

Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a chronic inflammatory skin disease with increasing prevalence over the last few decades. Various factors are known to aggravate the disease. In particular, wool and synthetic fabrics with harsh textile fibres, aggressive detergents and climatic factors may exacerbate AD. Cutaneous superinfection, particularly with Staphylococcus aureus, is also recognized as an import...

The Indian sericulture industry is beset with many problems. One of the main problems is the inability to produce quality silk of international grade. The quality silk can be produced only form bivoltines. The bulk of silk produced in India is from Multivoltines which are of inferior quality. Therefore, it is highly pertinent to have more productive bivoltine silkworm breeds capable of producin...

Spider silks possess a remarkable combination of high tensile strength and extensibility that makes them among the toughest materials known. Despite the potential exploitation of these properties in biotechnology, very few silks have ever been characterized mechanically. This is due in part to the difficulty of measuring the thin diameters of silk fibers. The largest silk fibers are only 5–10 m...

As the old idiom “men’s farming and women’s weaving” lays out an original picture of a traditional Chinese family organization, silk weaving industry in China has experienced long history formed well-rounded, stabilized technical system. Since modern times, with introduction application new looms, raw materials advanced techniques, gradually completed mod...