About Silk News
Silk is a natural protein fiber, some forms of which can be woven into textiles, and the textiles are then used to make clothing and fashion accessories. The process of silk production is known as sericulture. Extracting raw silk starts by cultivating the silkworms on mulberry leaves; once the worms start pupating in their cocoons, the cocoons are dissolved in boiling water in order for individual long fibers to be extracted and fed into the spinning reel. The production process is typically handled in steps by different entities — fiber, yarn and fabric suppliers among them — before a clothing manufacturer turns silk fabric into garments.
Silk news follows that chain: sericulture and fiber supply, silk fabrics, and the clothing and accessories made from them. This page collects the live silk headline searches with the textile routes on Apparel Search, including the fashion blog’s silk coverage linked below.
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Reading Silk News
This page is the silk front door of the Apparel Search news directory. The full set of news categories is laid out in the mosaic at the top of the page — audience categories such as women’s, men’s and children’s news, subject categories such as bridal, celebrity and fashion week news, and the fiber and textile categories — so any other segment of fashion news is one tile away, and the Fashion News Directory covers news by company as well as by category.
Readers use a category page like this one in two ways: to catch up, by running the live headline searches for silk news, and to go deeper, by following the publications that cover the segment week in and week out. Trade readers — buyers, sellers and makers working with silk products — and fashion readers following the subject for its own sake meet on the same page, which is why the list mixes headline searches with standing publications.
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Common Questions
What is silk?
Silk is a natural protein fiber, some forms of which can be woven into textiles used to make clothing and fashion accessories.
What is sericulture?
Sericulture is the process of silk production. It starts by cultivating silkworms on mulberry leaves; when the worms pupate in their cocoons, the cocoons are dissolved in boiling water so the long fibers can be extracted and fed into the spinning reel.
How do I follow silk news from here?
Use the live Bing and Google silk news searches, the fashion blog silk link below, and the textile and fiber routes on Apparel Search.