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Wild silks have attracted considerable attention for use as fabrics. This paper describes the characteristics of the silk fabrics from several silkworm species including wild silkmoths studied by diffuse reflection spectroscopy using monochromatic light. Irradiation of wild silk fabrics in separate wavelengths resulted in enhanced reflectance of specific structural colors. Regularly aligned structures present in wild silk fibers with the same order as the wavelengths of visible light, similar to a Fabry–Perot interferometer, was considered the cause of enhanced reflectance of characteristic structural colors.
