Written for the Scientific American By Dr. M.Reimann, of Berlin Supposing it is required to dye 100 lbs. of raw silk, 12 lbs. of soap are boiled with a sufficient quantity of river or rain water ...

Cornell researchers have developed an elegant and sustainable way to clean up waterways: reusing one waste product to remove ...

The studies, which have involved work on silk at the fabric, yarn, and fibre stages, showed that yarn unravelled from silk ...

Researchers have developed an elegant and sustainable way to clean up waterways: reusing one waste product to remove another.

But Aida Tokhtaeva uses them for hand-dyeing silk scarves. She recently started a small business in Adelaide where she moved from Kyrgyzstan. She says her interest in silk dyeing and working with ...