References for Silk Textiles

 

Aurivillius, P. O. C..  1927.  Lasiocampidae, pp. 265-282, plates 29-40, in A. Seitz, editor, The Macrolepidoptera of the World, vol. 14: The African Bombyces & Sphinges. Alfred Kernen Publisher, Stuttgart.  600 pp., 80 color plates. 

Balasubramaniam, C.  2010.  Golden Silk: The Pride of Assam - Literally the Queen of Silks. British Patchwork & Quilting, Issue 192: 60–63.

Chou, I.  1990.  A History of Chinese Entomology.  (Translated by Siming Wang.)  Tianze Press, Xian.  248 pp., 32 color plates.

Chowdhury, S. N.  1981.  Muga Silk Industry.  Directorate of Sericulture & Weaving, Gauhati, Assam. v 178 pp., 46 figures.

Chowdhury, S. N.  1982.  Eri Silk Industry. Directorate of Sericulture & Weaving, Gauhati, Assam.  iii 177 pp., 28 figures.

Clarke, D.  1997.  The Art of African Textiles.  Thunder Bay Press, San Diego.  128 pp.

Gaede, M.  1927, 1928.  Saturniidae, pp. 313–347, pls. 48–59 (1927); Thaumetopoeidae, pp.
395–400, pl. 68 (1928), in A. Seitz, editor, The Macrolepidoptera of the world, vol. 14: The African Bombyces and Sphinges.  Alfred Kernen Publisher, Stuttgart.  600 pp., 80 color plates.

Goel, R. K. and J. V. Krishna Rao.  2004.  Oak Tasar Culture—Aboriginal of Himalayas. A.P.H. Publishing Corp., New Delhi.  xii 247 pp.

Goldsmith, Marian R.  2009.  Chapter 2: Recent progress in silkworm genetics and genomics, pp.25–47 in M. R. Goldsmith & F. Marec, eds., Molecular Biology and Genetics of the Lepidoptera.  CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group, Boca Raton, London, New York.  xv 362 pp., 8 color plates.

Jolly, M S., S. K. Sen, and  M. M. Ahsan.  1974.  Tasar Culture.  Ambika Publishers,
Bombay.  viii  266 pp., 2 color plates.

Lajonquière, Y. de  1972.  Fascicle 34: Insectes Lépidoptères Lasiocampidae in Faune de
Madagascar.  Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique & l'Office de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique Outre-Mer, Paris.  214 pp., 28 plates.

Lampe, R. E. J.  2010.  Saturniidae of the World...Pfauenspinner der Welt: Their Life Stages from the Eggs to the Adults...Ihre Entwicklungsstadien vom Ei zum Falter.  Verlag Dr. Friedrich
Pfeil, München.  368 pp.

McLaughlin, T.  2009.  Dying for Gold.  Wild Fibers 6(3): 40–53.

Mohanty, P. K.  1998.  Tropical Tasar Culture in India.  Daya Publishing House, Delhi. viii 153 pp., 28 plates.

Myers, D. K. and S. S. Bean, editors.  1994.  From the Land of the Thunder Dragon: Textile Arts of Bhutan.  Serindia Publications, London, and Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts.  247 pp.

Peigler, R. S.  1989.  A Revision of the Indo-Australian genus Attacus.  Lepidoptera
Research Foundation, Beverly Hills, California.   xi  167 pp.

Peigler, R. S.  1993.  Wild silks of the world.  American Entomologist 39(3): 151-161.
                                   
Peigler, R. S.  1994.  Non-sericultural uses of moth cocoons in diverse cultures.  Proceedings of the Denver Museum of Natural History, Series 3, Number 5: 1-20.

Peigler, R. S.  2004.  Chapter 10: The silkmoths of Madagascar, pp. 154-163, in C. M.
Kusimba, J. C. Odland, and B. Bronson, editors, Unwrapping the Textile Traditions of
Madagascar.  Field Museum, Chicago, and UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, Los Angeles.  196 pp.

Peigler, R. S. and M. Maldonado.  2005.  Uses of cocoons of Eupackardia calleta and
Rothschildia cincta (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae) by Yaqui Indians in Arizona and Mexico.
Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo (Frankfurt) 26(3): 111–119.

Peigler, R. S. and S. Naumann.  2003.  A revision of the silkmoth genus Samia.  University of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio.  230 pp, 10 maps, 228 figs. (148 in color).

Phukan, R.  2010.  Muga Silk: Problems and Prospects of Muga Silk Industry of Assam, India.
VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, GmbH, Saarbrücken.  146 pp.

Pinhey, E. C. G.  1979.  Moths of Southern Africa.  A. A. Balkema, Rotterdam.  273 pp., 63 color plates.

SRIL. 1994.  [Editorial team at Sericultural Research Institute of Liaoning.]  The records of
tussah varieties in China.  Liaoning Science Technology Publishing House, Shenyang. 
6  274 pp. [in Chinese]

Srivastav, P. K. and K. Thangavelu.  2005.  Sericulture and seri-biodiversity.  Associated
Publishing Company, New Delhi.  xvii + 254 pp., 48 color figures.

Wardle, T.  1881.  Handbook of the collection illustrative of the wild silks of India, in the
Indian section of the South Kensington Museum, with a catalogue of the collection and
numerous illustrations.  Facsimile reprint 2007.  Kessinger Publishing, Whitefish, Montana.
xii + 163 pp.