Tussar silk
Coarse silk from wild Antheraea silkworms / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Tussar silk (alternatively spelled as tussah, tushar, tassar,[1] tussore, tasar, tussur, or tusser, and also known as (Sanskrit) kosa silk) is produced from larvae of several species of silkworms belonging to the moth genus Antheraea, including A. assamensis, A. paphia, A. pernyi, A. roylei, and A. yamamai. These silkworms live in the wild forests in trees belonging to Terminalia species and Shorea robusta, as well as other food plants such as jamun and oak found in South Asia, eating the leaves of the trees on which they live.[2][3] Tussar silk is valued for its rich texture and natural, deep-gold colour, and varieties are produced in many countries, including China,[4] India, Japan, and Sri Lanka.[5]