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silk filaments Silkworm cocoon Embroidered silk with dragon, phoenix, and tiger pattern, from Mashan Tomb No. 1, 4th–3rd century bce, Zhou dynasty; in the Jingzhou Museum, Hubei province, China. Persian hunting carpet Silkworm silk Qing dynasty: silk dragon robe silk in a shop in Thailand Surin: silk
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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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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,...
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Marvin S. Traub, 1972 (1972.36), www.metmuseum.org
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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