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From: "bevw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Cc: "Lace Arachne" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 8:43 PM
Subject: Re: [lace] Re: Silk thread/sea silk
You can find something about seasilk here:
http://www.tuttoricamo.com/trMateriali/Bisso.asp
Silvia, from sunny Italy
Hi Jeri and everyone
Thankyou for the interesting links.
This caught my eye:
Does anyone on our international list know about Sea Silk?
...because I have just purchased some lovely dyed knitting yarn called
'Sea
Silk' - 70% silk, and 30% 'sea cell' - a kelp-based fibre. It has
potential
for a bobbin lace scarf :)
However, this is not the sea silk of the bivalve source.
On the latter there is an excellent entry at Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_silk
with references, and external links which would be worth following - one
in
particular is the website of a handspinner in Sardinia who utilizes
byssus.
--
Bev in Sooke BC (on beautiful Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada)
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