Pharmaceutical giant Kowa Co. said it has created an exceptionally durable and environmentally friendly new textile from the gossamer silk of bagworm moth larvae. In its Nov. 20 announcement ...

She watched as its luminous threads were woven into fabric on hand looms and embellished ... The author visits 17th-century collections of silk-moth species and examines the papers, drawings ...

(If allowed to emerge from a cocoon, an adult moth would ruin the silk ... and woven into fabric. Como's silk companies now buy most of their undyed raw silk (both fabric and yarn) from China.