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Article History

Received: 16 November 2022

Accepted: 17 August 2023

First Online: 1 September 2023

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: This manuscript deals with mulberry silk degumming optimization using response surface approach (Box and Behnken method), ultrasonic irradiation and traditional hot bath treatment. For the traditional method of degumming, soap solution and papain enzyme were used at temperatures of 85 and 90 °C, respectively. The control sample treated with soap solution gives 18.60% weight loss along with loss in single fibre strength and breaking elongation. Ultrasonics seems to be a more effective approach (technology) to improve degumming efficiency than the traditional heating bath and has been found to make textile wet processing ecologically beneficial. The software helped to verify the predictive model of the suggested method after tests had been carried on the tested samples. The predicted values got very close to the experimental ones. The results of experimental work support the industrial production of eco-friendly textile process.