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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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