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- Roberta
  
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14 years ago

Mon, Oct 5, 2009 4:42 PM

Apropos Doc's search for shiny stuff:

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Anybody who can get to the American Museum of Natural History in NY could look at this personally. The fabric is amazing, even though the thought of it gives me the creeps. Roberta in D

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14 years ago

Mon, Oct 5, 2009 7:28 PM

I went to a fiber arts festival a couple of weekends back, and got to see live silkworms doing their thing. The demonstrator was describing how the entire cocoon is spun from a single strand, and that part of the art is unweaving that cocoon with the single strand intact to be processed further into silk. I forget the rest; I was on information overload, and I'm sure it's all online someplace. Neat stuff.

Doc

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14 years ago

Tue, Oct 6, 2009 2:49 AM

I saw this and just was amazed. I'm not scared of spiders, don't really mind them as long as they're not on me. And I find their webs to be stunningly beautiful. But I never, ever dreamed such a thing as this was possible. Wow. And Gen, I agree -- I also got the giggles thinking about those tiny little spider harnesses. ROFL.

Sunny