[Artemisia] things that make you go "HOLY $#!T!!!"

[LYNETTE STUMPP]

Really beautiful! However, being arachnophobic, it will be a VERY cold day you know where, and everywhere else, before I ever even consider doing something like that. I'll be sticking to my embroidery.

Antoinette
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: morgan wolf<mailto:morganblaidddu at yahoo.com> 
  To: aerie<mailto:artemisia at lists.gallowglass.org> 
  Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 12:09 PM
  Subject: [Artemisia] things that make you go "HOLY $#!T!!!"


  http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?cc=fp&sc=fb&storyId=113223398<http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?cc=fp&sc=fb&storyId=113223398> 

  an 11 foot X 4 foot tapestry woven entirely of *spider silk*. The gold is the silk's natural color, and it took the weavers 4 years of getting up each morning, going out and capturing 15-20 spiders, then "silking" the spiders (basically milking them for silk), then releasing said spiders back out into the wild (to be recaptured at a later time most likely), then weaving the spider silk. They figure something like a million spiders were "silked" for the project.

  makes my sewing look pretty paltry, ya know?
  Morgan 


  Baron Morgan Blaidd Du,
  GHA(2), CQC, PCA, CCH;


  Protege and Ghillie to Baron Master James Ulrich MacKellar, OL OP;
  and Baroness Mistress Rachel Ashton, OP 


        
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