The Vietnamese Ao Dai has graced the world’s catwalks, acclaimed for its luxuriously elegant appearance as well as its softness and lightness. At a Van Phuc Silk shop in Hanoi's Ha Dong Town. (Source: ...

Narrator: Lotus silk is one of the rarest fabrics in the world, produced only in small scale across Cambodia, Myanmar, and, more recently, Vietnam. This natural fiber is only extracted by a few ...

Silk craft villages have dotted Vietnam for hundreds of years. They make silk by hand in a tedious, 30-step process. Craftspeople feed the silkworms every four hours so they spin brilliantly ...

Silk weaving has been a traditional handicraft in Vietnam for thousands of years. Legend has it that the craft was introduced to Co Do village in Hanoi’s outlying district of Ba Vi by the sixth Hung ...

HANOI (Vietnam News/Asia News Network): For thousands of years, sericulture and silk production have been closely associated with Vietnamese historical, cultural and social development. Silk has ...

Kraig Biocraft Laboratories Inc. announced milestones in production and development of its engineered spider silk for future ...

Photo by Tran Phuong Hoa According to Hoa, currently, there are not many people in the Vietnamese silk business, so the mulberry trees used to dye Lanh My A silk are no longer farmed because it takes ...

The painting, entitled ‘Cover of Future’ uses watercolor on traditional Vietnamese silk and depicts a dying tree, shedding the last of its leaves. The tree, although planted firmly in the ...