The Victoria and Albert Museum is currently showcasing the world’s largest piece of cloth made from spider silk. That is right, spider web was harvested from golden orb spiders spun and woven into a brocaded shawl. The website also features this short short film that reveals the 3 year process. …
Over on Zede’s Sewing Blog I have been interviewed if you are curious about such questions as how long I have been stitching and what my most important sewing tool I use, you might want to pop over and read it. Of more interest I am sure is the numerous …
This is an amazing discovery as this rope is 2,000 years old. Usually anything made of fibre is long degraded away at this age which is of course why so many textiles disappear too. This was found in the remains of a Roman ship which has been unearthed by Italian …
I am afraid there has been no stitching done in this house for a week or so. What caused this very rare thing? I was in Sydney for a week. One way I spent my time was to take a trip to the Powerhouse museum and visit the lace study …
Did you know you can make fabric made from scrap threads? Early in the year I posted photos of my empty Orts jar and said I had thought of a way of using them. If you are not sure what Orts are, they are a the little bits of thread …
Ok this is a shaggy dog story from Science Daily. In Scientists Unlock the Mystery Surrounding a Tale of Shaggy Dogs, researchers have clear evidence that textiles made by the Coast Salish weavers before contact with Europeans contain dog hair. Apparently there is a debate about it. As I read …
Interested in Gold work and/ or metal thread embroidery? This article in Science Daily about fiber technology will intrigue you at the least. Textile researchers for the last decade have been researching methods if dispersing finely powdered titanium, aluminium, steel, copper and silver and then allowing these metals in …
