Silk: a world history

Introduction

Part one: Moths. The wondrous transformation

Innder 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 treads

SLKY

Italo

Pinnidae

Upon the usefulness of the silk of spiders

Aranae

The house of the spiders

Nephila

Part three: Reinvention. The Khan's underclothes

Conscription

Tombstone

Mimic men

The silks of nearly anything

Smarter silk

Acknowledgments

List of illustrations

Index.