Clever Wind and Sand

Stolen from worms before they grew flight-wings. Thread a mile long, integral sericin-gum loosened in hot water vats, plucked and reeled - a single filament woven as fine cloth  …

Silk -  fabric of the orient, opulent without a doubt, conveyed by horse from China over thousands of miles. Unforeseen innovation occurred when wrapping disintegrated and ripped, exposed to the elements - dust storms repetitive and fierce degraded the surface of folded silk material. Sand -  abraded, blew into creases; created a pattern of negative and positive … such became the origin of silk peach-skin, damask and velvet …. Clever wind and sand.

 Bio

Janet Stoyel is a Craftsperson, she received an MBE from Queen Elizabeth II , is an RCA Master of Philosophy, holds a UCE Batchelor of Arts (Hons); is a Winston Churchill Fellow; a Queen Elizabeth Scholar, a Wingate Scholar and held Senior Research Fellow Tenure at as  University of West of England for 12 years - simultaneously operating a textile business: The Cloth Clinic. Janet now retired writes: Conference and Research Papers, Technical Documents and….  purely for pleasure ….. Janet writes Poetry!