of butterflies and worms
February 9, 2015
silk – no other fibre shouts “luxury” more loudly than silk
bottom left are reeled silk from Bryan in Japan
on the right, noil silk from Sanjo Silks
top, my handspun, natural dyed silk
a good resource – Cheryl Kolander’s book A Silk Worker’s Notebook
today, on Bryan’s blog a video showing the reeling process
and here http://www.atrampinthewoods.wordpress.com
fascinating videos of collecting and raising butterflies
check them out
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beautiful!
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Sharmon – the magic of silk!
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Ahhh, the colors of your silk yarns!
I really enjoyed those videos, I follow Bryan’s blog, but haven’t watched the clips till now.
So much work with growing own silk, but it looks like a lot of fun. I like processes without shortcuts.
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Alfia – raising silkworms is labor intensive, they have voracious appetites and you need a large, reliable supply of appropriate food. They also need constant cleaning and then there is the reeling. All rather daunting.
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Yet another weaving thing I haven’t tried! Those pictures of the piles of silk are yummy.
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Kerry – good quality 2 ply silk for a warp is a breeze to weave or start with wool or cotton warp and use silk for the weft. And it dyes beautifully.
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Deliciousness.
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Lis – hope you are having a lovely holiday.
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oh, the lusciousness of these silks!
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Velma – I can never decide if silk or linen is my favorite, guess it is whichever one I’m working with at the time
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into my mind comes “if you can’t be with the one you love, honey, love the one you’re with.”
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Velma – it’s kinda hard to love those fat worms but I do love their spit!
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