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 ...

Walker, the DMA’s Senior Curator of the Arts of Africa, the Americas and the Pacific, The Margaret McDermott Curator of African Art ... silk comes from either wild or domesticated moths.

They, in this case, are the bane of art institutions the world over: the webbing clothes moth. These fluttering ... like wool and silk. Undetected, the gilded insects chew away at textile surfaces ...

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, ...

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 ...