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Silk (I mean the real Silk)
Gene Wolfe • On Blue's Waters
How Silk-Making Represents a More Hidden Side of Georgia’s Past (Published 2020)
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“Cloth has traditionally been inseparable from life itself. Silk is drawn from the cocoons of silkworms fed on mulberry leaves, cotton is spun from the bolls of the cotton plant. Hemp fabric is produced from plant stems, basho cloth from leaf sheaths, and shinafu from tree bark, which passes through a series of processes to become yarn. Yarns are d
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Stitched among the whorls were so many seed pearls, in such a massed weight, the dress could only have been worn by a strong woman whose love for extravagance and style exceeded the desire for comfort.
Sarah Perry • Enlightenment
Linen made from flax was the oldest woven textile. Woolen thread was invented only after spinners of flax and other plant fibers began to obtain the longer animal fibers that grew on mutant wool sheep.
David W. Anthony • The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
Throughout my life I have done my best to imitate Silk (as I am doing here in Gaon),
