When thinking of Connecticut’s past glory as a center of the textile industry, cotton and woolen mills usually come to mind. Massive factories and crumbled foundations dot the landscape. Yet the use ...

For many, the history of the silk industry conjures images of ancient China, medieval Italy or exotic India and the trade that opened continents politically and economically. However, silk is not ...

It is being used to make bone screws, extra-sticky glue, cosmetics and possibly medical tattoos. What else can it do? Science is still answering that question. The future of silk may have much less to ...

ABOUT thirteen hundred and fifty years ago two Nestorian monks, armed with formidable-looking canes, were traveling from India to Byzantium. Sent to the East by the Patriarch of Persia, whither they ...

(Illustrations from A Treatise on the Mulberry Tree and Silkworm and on the Manufacture and Production of Silk, 1839. Courtesy of York County Heritage Trust Library/Archives) Silk has been prized for ...