India produced 158 tonnes of muga silk in FY 2014 15, out of which 136 tonnes were produced in Assam.
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Weaving is exquisite and intricate with the use of a variety of colours and textures of cotton and silk, especially Muga silk.
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*Deodhani dance-" The dancer wear a Mekhela made of Muga silk, red blouse, different traditional jewellery and leave her hairs open " identical copy from cited source
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Two eri spun-silk mills have been established in Hindupur in Andhra Pradesh and Kokrajhar in Assam while another is at Chaygaon, near Guwahati, Assam, which is spinning the finest Eri spun-silk yarn with various blends with bamboo, muga silk, cotton etc.
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In 2015, " Adarsh Gupta K " of Nagaraju's research team at " Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics ", Hyderabad, India discovered the complete sequence and the protein structure of Muga Silk Fibroin and published it in " Nature ( journal )"
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