The biodiversity hotspot of Assam is home to a curious silkworm that founded a textile heritage as far back as 321 BCE. Its creations spawned an industry alluded to in the pages of the Ramayana, where travelling east took you through “the country of cocoon rearers,” and the accounts of French traveller Jean-Baptiste Tavernier from 1662.
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From Tradition To Innovation: The Journey Of Muga Silk In Assam
The properties that make Muga silk unique could see it being used in the biofuels and medicines of the future