October 28, 2008 \\
Textile Tuesday
First I must apologize: Sarah’s room wasn’t shown in last night’s Chuck episode. I feel like I’ve let you all down. But promise still holds: if/when you see her room, you won’t be disappointed.
I’ve got a busy morning today: early Home Builder’s meeting and then off to Contempo Tile. So I don’t have much time to write and elaborate on a given textile.
I was browsing through some old China pictures and came across a few from when we went to a silk factory. It was very, very interesting.
These are the silk worm cocoons floating in the hot water. The hot water allows the silk to be broken up, but still saved. Then the little spinners spool them into threads. Pretty cool. The only un-cool (like, is that even a word?) thing about this process is that the little silk worms do die in the process.
Did you know you can make mattresses out of silk? Well, you can. This is what we were doing here. You start off with a small square piece of woven silk about a the size of a square foot. Then you get a team to pull together from opposite sides. You do this layer after layer, after layer…as low as 50 times. I wasn’t able to lay on one, so I’m not sure how comfortable and supportive they are. Although if they were comfortable, I would imagine we’d have them here in the states.
That’s my little blonde head behind the sweet Asian silk worker.
Aaaand here’s a random picture of me catching a ride behind this crazy cyclist. I was scared for my life. And trying to keep my skirt down.
One more picture. I know, you’d expect this kind of thing coming from Mick. Not me, but isn’t this gross? EWE!
