Spider silk produced by Silkworm. Souce Stronger than steel, more flexible than nylon and as light as cotton, spider silk has always been considered one of nature's most incredible materials, but also

Howdy Freewriters 🤗! Welcome to my 5 Minute Freewrite blog 😊! She looked into his distant eyes, eyes that carried a lot of wisdom in them. His skin, full of wrinkles; but she didn’t see the wrinkles.

It's like someone dragging sandpaper across your back, but not till it bleeds...just enough to alert your skin that there is a difference between gentle and rough. That's what it is like to live among

Gusanos de seda, Silkworms

Just when I thought I'd created the best stripey dress possible, along comes another one!

Ciao Bellissime/ Bellissimi! Hallo dearest needleworking friends: how are you all this week? I’m a great deal more peaceful and well-slept, after the intense festivities and sacred rites, the epic heat,

Climbing the tower of La Lonja (silk market) has long been at the top of our Valencia wishlist. Every time we visit La L

We always wanted to do one specific thing—climb the secret tower of Valencia's La Lonja. We sent emails and talked to pe

even better: when I started unpicking the loose stitching, it revealed that the skirt had originally been quite a bit...

I have been testing a new filament with the library 3D printer. Our Dremel 3D45 is designed for proprietary spools, so I needed to first print an adapter to use standard 2kg spools, and then acknowledge

Turkey Travel - Carpet Making

When you pick the clothes you want to wear, do you choose them after the colour or after their material? Once I went to a secondhand shop, back in Switzerland, with a friend. And the reason why this otherwise

Telling stories through fashion. What’s first, the story or the dress? The story. Each piece I sew, each garment I take apart to assemble it in a different way, every design I paint in my thoughts, origins

How to turn fabric back into yarn? Is there no solution, or have we just been searching in the wrong place? There are a million ways to create fabric. From synthetics, plants, animal fibres, with the right

The second dress that I made from my favourite big orange silk skirt....

I got a lot of good comments from locals - though others gave me the squinty-eye!

Do you need a lot of clothes to be happy? Or are you satisfied with a few? Life often seems to throw the one thing at you, that you would have expected the least. And if there is one lesson I am learning