January 2006 – WormSpit

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.

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.