How to Make Silk in 6 Steps

Designboom has a fascinating pictorial of the traditional silk making process of the craftspeople in a small  village in north-east Tailand. Starting with silk worms, which aren't actually worms, and ending with luscious fabric, the photos illustrate the proceedure in 6 steps.

Step 1: Raising silkworms & harvesting cocoons.

Step 2: Thread extraction:

Step 3: Dyeing.

Step 4: Spinning.

Step 5: Weaving.

Step 6: Ikat (binding » READ MORE

May 12, 2008

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people on Curbly with online stores and blogs. Lets help each other to promote our stores and get better rankings on Google. Curbly itself is a big help, but we need something else too. My offer: I have a blog http://textiledecor.blogspot.com/ and I offer to link decor, design related online stores, or blogs to my blog. In exchange I will ask you to link my site www.lenkart.com to your blog or site. I would like the words Decorative Pillows to be » READ MORE

September 07, 2007

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Embrace Photo Silkscreen Printing for under $75!

I have no formal training in the visual arts, but I’ve been determined to learn to do photo silkscreen prints since I learned about the process in high school. Unfortunately, a lot of the ‘how-to’ literature scares one to thinking one needs a vacuum-press table, a complex exposure system inside a formal dark room, enormous wash basins, and pro-grade halftone filters, etc, etc, etc…



As it turns out, one does not. Using a pre-made and readil » READ MORE

March 14, 2007

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