more silky spools, and SOAR ribbons!
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SOAR ribbons, and more spools
Originally published at WormSpit. You can comment here or there. These are some ribbons that I’ve been working on. They’re not pressed or hemmed yet, but I just had to share! The gold and black is 50-weight sewing silk; I dyed the yellow, the black I bought that way. The brocade is all silk that […]
Gotta share with y’all – I’m very proud of my new baby gimme spools! see, it’s got all my info, like a silky business card! The red and green are (appx.) 10 yards of embroidery floss… the creamy ones are LOTS (100 yards?) of raw silk filament.
Gimme spools
Originally published at WormSpit. You can comment here or there. I’ve been working at getting ready for SOAR next month. One of the things that I absolutely have to have, is cool, small presents – I’ve always found that I make wonderful new friends at events like this, and I want to give them little […]
A blog on my own site!
I’ve set up a new blog. It was tough – WordPress and GoDaddy are apparently famous for not getting along. But, finally after much finagling, I have my blog on wormspit.com. MY NEW BLOG! So… y’all go and check it out! The archives are a transfer from my LiveJournal, so that’s nothing new – just […]
Tufts University invents process for silk lenses
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/08/20/silk-lens-optics.html I usually report on the silk stuff that I’m doing, myself – but this one is too cool not to mention! If I’m reading it right, they’re using an aqueous solution of sericin. If so, it might even be possible to extract the stuff, and still have the silk for textile (or other) use.
my new reeling videos
I’m planning to put these up on the silk reeling page – the first video shows catching the strands from the cocoons, the second and third are two different views of adding cocoons to the reeling strand.
The Heminway Silk – Seller is up again.
For anyone who wanted some of the Heminway silk… The Ebay seller where I got the 000 Sewing Silk has some more to sell – he had been out of touch, not out of stock! His computer access has been up and down, so if one sells, he can’t always immediately re-list. You can see […]
More of the Heminway thread
In case you were wondering (I was!) what the difference between Size A and Size 000 thread is – now I can show you. I wanted to wait until I had some of the Heminway dyed black, so I could compare apples to apples. The bulky stuff on the right is regular size A silk […]
Heminway thread
Before degumming, right, and after, left. I got a great deal on some VERY fine thread. This stuff is Size 000 Silk Sewing Twist – normal, regular-fineness sewing thread is Size A, and it goes thicker up to F, and finer to 0, 00, and then this stuff. TINY. The problem is – the thread […]