David, Sorry to hear that food is so short out in Ballarat and that you are now having to resort to a bush tucker trial of silk worm but I've been out to the kitchen to check my store of rice paper and then checked the manufacturer on the web and my rice paper is made from ... well .... rice.
Kind Regards Liz Baker [email protected] My chronicle of my bobbins can be found at my website: http://thelacebee.weebly.com/ --- On Wed, 13/4/11, David C COLLYER <[email protected]> wrote: From: David C COLLYER <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [lace] silk threads To: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, 13 April, 2011, 18:02 At 02:52 AM 14/04/2011, Jane Partridge wrote: > Whilst the "ethical grounds" mentioned for not using silk are probably due to the method of boiling the cocoons (thus killing the silkworm) in order to wind silk from them, - nothing is gone to waste! These dead pupae are then processed into the "rice paper", so called because Westerners probably wouldn't eat it if they knew what it was! [Saw that on a silk making video]. David in Ballarat - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003 - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
