Merino wool isn’t the only option. From bamboo to cashmere, we explore the best base layer fabrics for staying warm, dry, and ...

How small is "small?" Spider silk nanofibrils are just a few molecular layers thick, equivalent to approximately one ...

The Company undertook to set up a 100% Export Oriented Unit (EOU) for the manufacture of Worsted spun yarn (Pure wool and wool blended with one or more polyester, viscose, silk fibre) with a ...

Which brings us to something everyone will appreciate: silk pyjamas. Whether or not you’re already planning what to wear for upcoming nights out (or in), then you’ll want to know about these ...

The best silk pillowcases are billed as helping to improve your skin and hair, while also making for a luxurious addition to your bedding. Silk is less absorbent than cotton – and won’t wick ...

After this extraction process, the silk threads are spun and dyed using natural ingredients such as pomegranate skins, indigo, saffron and walnut shells, giving the fabric its vibrant, distinctive ...

“This changes everything we thought we knew.” Lidar is helping uncover medieval cities high in the mountains of Central Asia along the Silk Road where trade caravans, like this one depicted in ...

Hold the phone: if you’re new to the concept of sleeping in a silk hair wrap it’s time to get acquainted with Silke. Where most hair wraps seem aesthetically unpleasing, this one is wholly ...

Trade must have been crucial for the success of this Silk Road community. Read the paper: Large-scale medieval urbanism traced by UAV–lidar in highland Central Asia During the heyday of the ...

Now, archaeologists for the first time have mapped these intriguing highland strongholds in the country’s southeast — once a key crossroad of ancient silk trade routes — that were ...

On the Silk Road, these lost twin cities may have sustained themselves in a foreboding landscape with metallurgy and commerce. Hidden in the towering mountains of Central Asia, along what has been ...