At 04:49 PM 10/17/2005, you wrote:
I'm reading an article: "Objets archéologiques;
Témoins dune quaiité de vie urbaine dans le
bourg monastique: by Nicole Meyer Rodrigues in
Dossiers d'Archaologie no. 297 (Oct. 2004) pp. 94-101.
On page 94 there is a picture of a knitted cap
from the beginning of the 14th century - it's
described as "Bonnet en byssus" -- the text
appears on page 101 as "Un bonnet tricoté en
byssus, ou soie marine ou encore laine de
poisson, substance sécrétée par la pinna
nobilis, un grand coquillage bivalve de
méditerranée. le bonnet provient dun dépotoir
dont le remplissage est date du debut du XiVe
siècle..." which roughly means "A bonnet
knitted in byssus, or "marine silk" or "fish
wool", substance secreted by the pinna nobilis,
a large bivalvular shell of the
Mediterranean. the bonnet comes from a dump
whose filling is date of the beginning of XIVe century..."
Has anyone ever heard of this stuff or worked with it?
Marc
I ran a quick search on "byssal threads". This
article has a statement that may support the
article you cited. http://www.lifesci.ucsb.edu/mcdb/labs/waite/byssus.html
Personally, I have never tried to collect byssal
threads from mussels, though here's an article
showing how to work with
them. http://www.designboom.com/eng/education/byssus_howto.html
Joan Jurancich
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