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Sustainability, Textile / 21.06.2019

Silk and other natural textile fibers

At a time when we are witnessing mass deforestation and the Amazon forest conflagration, our planets lungs, it becomes even more important to highlight and promote the use of natural fibers that respect our environment and contribute to giving a healthy planet to future generations....

Curiosity, Textile / 15.01.2019

From the cocoon to the yarn, how silk is born

For many centuries, the silk rearing in particular and the sericulture in general have been a prerogative of China and of its emperors, as seen in the article about silk history. The silkworm and the silk production process comes / arrived from Sicily in XIII century and from there it spread firstly in Italy and then all over Europe. Still, how does a silkworm become silk? How can a butterfly larva produce a filament so precious and fine?...