“The thread count of a fabric matters less than the quality of cotton," says Doyle. "For example, 200 thread count sheets ...

Narrator: Humans have been making silk for centuries ... Filaments are joined to create a thread thick enough to weave into fabric. One yard of silk fabric costs approximately $100.

making the same product ... are gathered together and twisted into a yarn in the same way that cocoon silk threads are spun or thrown together. The artificial silk threads, while still soft ...

Phan Thi Thuan's family have been making silk for generations, growing and harvesting the threads from silkworms themselves to create luxury garments. But making lotus silk is different.

In their quest to make silk powerful again, not by status but rather by thread strength, scientists turned to an arachnoid. Dragline silk, the thread by which the spider hangs itself from the web, is ...

Computational analysis provides new insights into silk's mechanical properties that was unavailable experimentally ...

make little silken cells in which to hide in during the day - a bit like a sleeping bag.' Most spiders use silk to wrap their eggs. Another common use for silk is as a drag line. Every so often a ...

When they weave their webs, spiders pull their silk threads. New simulations show stretching ... is necessary for making really strong fibers," said Northwestern's Sinan Keten, the study's senior ...