Whether you write more about silk or not (and you should write more about it) please tell more about those significant media advantages. I know you warned that we shouldn’t get you started, but it would make up a little for what we might lose if we do not get from you a suitable study of silken sutures
My sister has a quilt from 1891 that has the names of various women in my great-grandmother’s quilting group and its creation date stitched into the individual patches. Although its colors are now fairly drab, and its physical character attenuated, the quilt makes a lovely wall hanging. This incredible essay enables me to appreciate its value in historico-cultural, as well as familial, terms.
I had heard you on a podcast with Jonah Goldberg and then read your book on fabrics which was excellent. Now I subscribe to your newsletter, which i always look forward to reading.
Recommend Karen Russell's "Reeling for the Empire"--a story about silkworms (sort of) in her collection, "Vampires in the Lemon Grove." I heard it being read on NPR, couldn't listen to all of it (beyond a "driveway moment"), and had to get the book. I love silk, including knitting with it, and still do, but this gave me a different perspective about its producers.
I was reading a Sci-fi book published in the early 90s. He, She and It by Marge Piercy. Not a bad book, but in an apocryphal post nuclear world. Most food is made in vats, only the very rich have real food. But somehow or another the real rich do have silk. I don't think the author is aware of what sericulture is really like
Whether you write more about silk or not (and you should write more about it) please tell more about those significant media advantages. I know you warned that we shouldn’t get you started, but it would make up a little for what we might lose if we do not get from you a suitable study of silken sutures
Maybe I'll answer that in Question Time.
My sister has a quilt from 1891 that has the names of various women in my great-grandmother’s quilting group and its creation date stitched into the individual patches. Although its colors are now fairly drab, and its physical character attenuated, the quilt makes a lovely wall hanging. This incredible essay enables me to appreciate its value in historico-cultural, as well as familial, terms.
I had heard you on a podcast with Jonah Goldberg and then read your book on fabrics which was excellent. Now I subscribe to your newsletter, which i always look forward to reading.
Recommend Karen Russell's "Reeling for the Empire"--a story about silkworms (sort of) in her collection, "Vampires in the Lemon Grove." I heard it being read on NPR, couldn't listen to all of it (beyond a "driveway moment"), and had to get the book. I love silk, including knitting with it, and still do, but this gave me a different perspective about its producers.
I was reading a Sci-fi book published in the early 90s. He, She and It by Marge Piercy. Not a bad book, but in an apocryphal post nuclear world. Most food is made in vats, only the very rich have real food. But somehow or another the real rich do have silk. I don't think the author is aware of what sericulture is really like