Eri is a silk cultivated in the Brahmaputra valley of Assam and neighbouring Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya and Nagaland. The Mising (also spelt Mishing) community has traditionally reared ...
Silk fabric, which has its roots in the ancient East and the output and cultivation of very hard-working silk moths, was once traded and prized as one of China's most famous exports, and through the ...
In a surprising discovery, a medieval silk seal bag from the reign of King Henry III has emerged as a ‘perfect match’ to the silk cloth used to wrap the body of Emperor Charlemagne, when his ...