Silk : a world history

In a gorgeous history that spans continents and millennia, Aarathi Prasad weaves together the complex story of the queen of fabrics. Through the scientists who have studied silk, and the biology of the animals from which it has been drawn, Prasad explores the global, natural, and cultural history (and future) of a unique material that has fascinated the world for thousands of years.

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Silk > History.
Sericulture > History.
Silkworms.

ISBN: 9780063160255 (hardcover)
Physical Description print
viii, 293 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Edition First edition.
Publisher 2024

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Silk : A World History

by Prasad, Aarathi

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Silk : A World History

Section	Section Description	Page Number
	Introduction	1
Part 1	Moths	11
1	The Wondrous Transformation	13
2	Inner Workings	23
3	Bombyx	34
4	The Long Road	47
5	Saturniidae	54
6	In Ambon	66
7	Indus	74
8	Antheraea	82
9	Muga	93
10	The Works of Industry of All Nations	116
11	Wardle	122
Part 2	Silken Shells, Golden Orbs	141
12	Coquillages Ã Soie	143
13	A Tangle of Threads	150
14	SLKY	161
15	Italo	166
16	Pinnidae	175
17	Upon the Usefulness of the Silk of Spiders	190
18	Araneae	197
19	The House of the Spiders	206
20	Nephila	216
Part 3	Reinvention	227
21	The Khan's Underclothes	229
22	Conscription	234
23	Tombstone	245
24	Mimic Men	255
25	The Silks of Nearly Anything	266
26	Smarter Silk	274
	Acknowledgments	285
	List of Illustrations	287
	Index	289

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