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SILK "The Queen of Fabrics"
     In the fast world of change many countries and its societies tends to characterized their change and manifest in fashion.

     Affordable and affluent classes are more into the natural fabrics like Cotton, Silk and Wool. Garments made of natural fibers are expensive and elegant in texture with a very comfortable wear.

     The Department of Sericulture is focusing its attention towards on post cocoon activities like Spinning, Reeling, Weaving and Dying which are all industrial in nature and production of cocoons which will finally gives a natural fiber called Silk.

      Realizing that Naga women excels others is notably the design that we see in our traditional dresses and this expertise should be rightly inter woven in the Silk clothes that are being made by some entrepreneurs in the state.

     In order to have mass production of Silk clothes, first of all it is quite imperative to have sufficient raw materials that are cocoons. To this direction the Department?s approaching Sericulture farmers to have cluster development through various CSS like NABARD, CDP and State programmes. The potentiality of producing Silk solely depends much upon the full time progressive farmers in the state.

Common man?s Silk
      Ever since its discovery, silk has played an important role in the economic life of mankind. Even today, despite the onslaught of other natural (Cotton, Wool, Jute) and man made textile fibers (Rayon, Nylon, Polyester etc.) silk continue to reign supreme, being exclusive and the most beautiful of all textile fibers. Click here to read more

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Princess of SILK
      ?For centuries, the production of silk was a closely guarded secret. On this secret was built the greatest trading network the world had ever known; and at its centre, the silkworm, a creature as wondrous as the precious threads it spins.?
By Nadja Klinger
     Once upon a time? so many stories begin with these words, and yet what follows- at least for this story-changes with each telling. Out tale begins 5,000 years ago with Lei Zu, the wife of the Chinese Emperor, out one day for a walk with her ladies-in-waiting. As they strolled along enjoying the sunshine, they happened to spot a worm hidden among the leaves of a mulberry tree. It was a pale yellow creature, about 8cm long and really nothing much to look at. What was extraordinary, however, was the tangle of glorious, sparkling threads from which it hung. Click here to read more

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