moths are the biggest enemy of tapestry. It is very hard to protect art made of cotton, wool, silk or tree fibers. The world’s most interesting works of art are fibers and fish lines tied to ...

Silk permeates art museums and the fashion industry. It has held our fascination and inspired our greed for so long that our domestication of silkworm moths has left them utterly reliant on us.

It is widespread across the eastern half of the U.S. Birding experts Kenn and Kimberly Kaufman say that in the cecropia moth’s range, you might also spot a related species, the Columbia silk moth.

Those precious silk garments in your closet were made by the caterpillar of a fuzzy, white moth — thousands of them. Silkworms spin a cocoon with a single strand of silk up to 10 city blocks long.

Robert Dumas, son-in-law to Emile Hermès, was the very first person to design a piece of art to adorn a Hermès ... is made from the silk of 250 mulberry moth cocoons, and it takes roughly ...

The Chinese perfected the art of harvesting the single ... which is stringent when it comes to genetically modified organisms. Silk moths have been domesticated for so long they can no longer fly, ...

In this painting her elaborate headdress conceals the cocoons of the silk moth and the seeds of the mulberry tree. What was the Silk Road? The painting comes from a Buddhist shrine in Khotan in ...

Pharmaceutical giant Kowa Co. said it has created an exceptionally durable and environmentally friendly new textile from the gossamer silk of bagworm moth larvae. In its Nov. 20 announcement ...