Re: [lace] Sea Silk

[Jean Leader]

On 2 Sep 2015, at 11:51, Jane  wrote:

> I've never heard of sea silk before, but found this article amazing. I 
> thought others of you might be interested.
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-33691781

If any one wants to know more bout sea silk there’s an interesting website 
about Project Sea-silk at the Natural History Museum in Basel, Switzerland 
which is documenting what is known about sea-silk - history, production, 
inventory of existing objects etc - despite the URL in German,  it's in English

http://www.muschelseide.ch/en/projekt.html

I found it fascinating.
Jean in sunny Glasgow

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Re: [lace] Sea Silk

[The Lace Bee]

I joined Arachne just a few months after it started.  I was very lucky to have 
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I wanted to echo Alex's words below.  I have learnt so much from the Arachne 
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L  

Kind Regards
Liz Baker

> On 4 Sep 2015, at 09:22, Alex Stillwell  wrote:
> 
> My thanks to Arachne members for all I have learned over the years, may we
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Re: [lace] Sea Silk

[Liz and Ken Roberts]

Thanks for sharing this! It is a very intriguing story.
 
Liz in Missouri USA
 
 
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Subject: [lace] Sea Silk


I've never heard of sea silk before, but found this article amazing. I 
thought
others of you might be
interested.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-33691781

Jane
New Forest,
UK

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Re: [lace] Sea Silk

[J-D Hammett]

Hi fellow Arachnids,


Had never heard of this material, or the fact that the people who live in this 
area are of Jewish roots. 

This is a very interesting article and I would love to see and touch some 
byssus (sea silk) material.


Happy lace making,


Joepie, in (yet again) overcast East Sussex, UK.








From: Jane Read
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I've never heard of sea silk before, but found this article amazing. I 
thought others of you might be interested.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-33691781

Jane
New Forest, UK

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Re: [lace] Sea Silk

[Jeriames]

Thank you, Jane.
 
In 20 years, we have discussed many subjects on Arachne.  You  may learn 
more by searching 
 
1.  Sea Silk
2.  Byssus
 
in our archives:
 
http://www.mail-archive.com/lace@arachne.com/index.html
 
Jeri Ames in Maine USA
Lace and Embroidery Resource Center

 
In a message dated 9/2/2015 6:52:48 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
janefr...@googlemail.com writes:

I've  never heard of sea silk before, but found this article amazing. I 
thought  others of you might be  interested.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-33691781

Jane,  New Forest, UK

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Re: [lace] Sea silk

[Elisabeth Wagner]

There has been an exhibit on Sea Silk, Muschelseide in German, at the Museum
of Natural History in Basel, Switzerland in 2004. The museum has an
illustrated article in German on its website, as well as several contact
email addresses. The link:
www.nmb.ch/ausstellungen/vergangene-ausstellungen/muschelseide-go

Elisabeth Wagner in Brookline, MA

On 4/17/07, Nicole Gauthier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  Does anyone on our international list know about Sea Silk?
 
  PieceWork editors are looking for information about sea silk, or
  byssus -- a
  silky filament secreted by certain bivalve mollusks to attach
  themselves to
  rocks or other substrates,  perhaps near Spain.  There is an
  interest in
  learning more about this unique silk, said to have been used for
  embroidery in
  medieval times.I will be happy to pass information, book
  titles, etc. to one of
  the editors, who lives here in Maine.
 
  Jeri Ames in Maine USA
  Lace and Embroidery Resource Center.
 In May 2005, at the Italia Invita meeting in Rimini, Italy, there was
 a man with his daughter showing the sea silk and they came from
 Sardinia like you said, Bev. You could certainly get more information
 from Italia Invita at:http://www.italiainvita.it/uk/forum2007/2007.shtml

 Nicole in Kirkland, Qc

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Re: [lace] Sea silk

[Nicole Gauthier]

Thank you, Elisabeth for the link at the Museum of National History
in Basel. I could not open it but found it at: http://www.nmb.bs.ch/
ausstellungen/vergangene-ausstellungen.htm
Only the bs. was missing.
The text and the links given by the museum are very interesting. Have
you seen that exhibition?

Nicole in Kirkland, Qc

Le 07-04-19 à 11:49, Elisabeth Wagner a écrit :

 There has been an exhibit on Sea Silk, Muschelseide in German, at
 the Museum of Natural History in Basel, Switzerland in 2004. The
 museum has an illustrated article in German on its website, as well
 as several contact email addresses. The link:
 www.nmb.ch/ausstellungen/vergangene-ausstellungen/muschelseide-go

 Elisabeth Wagner in Brookline, MA


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