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Videos
What can bionics researchers learn from butterflies and moths?
Bionics researchers studying silkworm moths and butterflies.
Video: Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz
Witness a spider building, devouring, and rebuilding a web
Time-lapse video of a spider building a web, devouring it, and building a new one.
Video: Video by Neil Bromhall; music, Musopen String Quartet/Musopen.org (
A Britannica Publishing Partner
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Images
silk filaments
Silk filaments after dyeing, Ürgüp, Tur.
Georges Jansoone
silkworm cocoon
Commercial silk is made from the fibrous cocoons of silkworm caterpillars (
Bombyx
...
© Vibe Images/Fotolia
Embroidered silk with dragon, phoenix, and tiger pattern, from Mashan Tomb No. 1,...
Kong Lihang/ChinaStock Photo Library
Persian hunting carpet
Detail of a Persian silk hunting carpet from Kāshān, Iran, 16th century, showing...
Courtesy of the Osterreichisches Museum Fur Angewandte Kunst, Vienna; photographs Eric Lessing - Magnum
silkworm
Domesticated silkworms (
Bombyx
species) on mulberry leaves.
© Roman Sigaev/Fotolia
silk
Detail of handwoven Italian silk brocaded on silk with floral motif,
c.
...
Courtesy of Scalamandre, New York City
Qing dynasty: silk dragon robe
Panel from an imperial Chinese silk dragon robe embroidered in silk and gold thread,...
Lee Boltin
silk in a shop in Thailand
Silk on display in a shop in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
© Pawel Gaul /iStock.com
Surin: silk
Silk from Surin, Thai.
© Natt Boonyatecha—EyeEm/Getty Images
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