Friday, June 22, 2007

A visit to the Carpet Weavers' Associatıon - Silkworms included


carpet coop silkworms, originally uploaded by kkqc8135.

This was absolutely fascınatıng. First, we watched some weavers knotting rugs and they explained the technique. Then, we got to see how they harvest silk form silkworm cocoons. Can you see the threads of silk? Really amazing. Reminded me of the beginning of Middlesex (a fantastıc novel by Jeffrey Eugenides) and the discussion of the grandmother keeping silkworms in Asia Minor...not far from where we were.

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