Flat silks for Paul
These are for Paul Martin, who is going to tie fishing flies with them.
More colors to come: purple, green, magenta, silver, teal.
These are for Paul Martin, who is going to tie fishing flies with them.
More colors to come: purple, green, magenta, silver, teal.
This has been a fun adventure – I’m working up colors for an embroidery project that Rissa is going to embroider!
These are the silks; they are five-meter tubes of 300-denier flat reeled silk, hand-reeled from cocoons.
Click here for more specs, and the photo of the subject!
I finally got photos taken, and a page worked up for the degumming process!
It takes the silk from this:
to this:
https://www.wormspit.com/degumming.htm
I keep getting hits to wormspit.com from a NeverWinterNights forum.
Does anybody know what this is?
http://nwn.bioware.com/guilds_registry/viewtopic.html?topic=226187&forum=3561&gid=2226&sp=90
I’m just curious what they’re saying about the site!
I got interviewed for a Fiber Cast episode –
http://fiberarts.typepad.com/fibercast/
We talk for about twenty minutes about silk, silkworms, sericulture…
I’m excited; I think it turned out well.
I used the remaining warp from Nick and Cerra’s handfasting ribbon to make my Pakistani friend Harry a bookmark.