Articles & interviews

articles about us, interviews with Rosanne, and other related publications.

- Interview with Pamela Ravasio at http://www.handeyemagazine.com/content/threads-gold,
at http://shirahime.ch/2010/09/sawang-boran-and-the-isan-silk-weavers-%E2%80%93-a-social-community-business-collaboration-in-thailand/
and athttp://www.thaitextilesociety.org/cal2.php?pg=dx3x1860

- http://journals.cambridge.org/repo_A790nW5a (article by Rosanne on ‘intellectual property’ issues in traditional knowledge systems)

- article by Jackie Sasisech : a Thai high school student’s discovery of Sawang Boran, told in ‘The Muses of Silk’ published by MyBatik, Nov 2010, pp 40-42. www.myBatik.org.my

articles about silk in general

The New York Times ran some material on silk science in March 2011, illustrating the interest of scientists in this extraordinary fibre, and their acknowledgment that decades of research in human laboratories have not been able to recreate artificially what silk-weaving insects do naturally. Here you can discover some of the applications of silk in particular in medicine.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/08/science/08silk.html?_r=1&emc=eta1

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/03/07/science/08SILK.html?scp=7&sq=silk&st=cse