Silk: a world history

Part one: moths. The wondrous transformation

Inner workings

Bombyx

The long road

Saturniidae

In Ambon

Indus

Antheraea

Muga

The works of industry of all nations

Wardle

Part two: silken shells, golden orbs. Coquillages à soie

A tangle of threads

SLKY

Italo

Pinnidae

Upon the usefulness of the silk of spiders

Araneae

The house of the spiders

Nephila

Part three: reinvention. The Khan's underclothes

Conscription

Tombstone

Mimic men

The silks of nearly anything

Smarter silk.