Jun 12, 2019 Sabohat Khudayberdiyeva, silkworm farmer Late spring is silkworm season in Uzbekistan’s Ohangaron district, about an hour south of Tashkent. It all starts with a box of caterpillar eggs.

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Historically, silkworm silk has been used in fashion as a source of luxury robes and apparel fitting of royalty, but today, silk-based materials are more likely to be found in biomedicine as a ...

Journal Reference: Wang and Fan et al. Artificial superstrong silkworm silk surpasses natural spider silks. Matter, 2022 DOI: 10.1016/j.matt.2022.08.028 ...

Silkworm silk typically consists of protein fibers sheathed in a glue-like substance. That glue helps the silk fibers stick together in cocoons, but it’s an impediment to spinning it.