Have you seen this? This beautiful tapestry was made from spider silk. It took four years and over a million spiders to make. They had to recruit “spider wranglers” to “harness” the spiders to capture their silk. Odd, but fascinating! Read more about it and listen to the NPR story. The tapestry is in New [...]
I had no idea that you could raise silkworms until I read about it in the Fall issue of Spin-Off magazine. Fiber enthusiast Michael Cook writes about growing your own silk. He says that you can raise them in a plastic shoebox, and that they eat mulberry leaves. I found this to be a fascinating [...]
In trying to determine what inspired me this week, what to feature as this week’s spotlight, I admit all I could think of was the FIBER itself. Probably because we sheared this week. But it made me want to pay tribute to the fibers that Fiber Artists must use to create their art. If you [...]
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