NODES AND MODES
Isn’t it perpetually astonishing that so humble and unattractive a creature can produce the most sumptuous and tactile of fabrics? Silk can absorb up to thirty times its weight in water, is warmer than wool, and is unsurpassed for beauty and touch.
In Silk (2007. Yale University Press), internationally respected textile and wallpaper historian, Mary Schoeser, enhances our knowledge of this wonder fabric by examining its unique physical structure, as well as paying keen attention to silk’s evolution as a symbol of status and substance...
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Image: Silk by Mary Schoeser
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