Chiara Vigo: The last woman who makes sea silk - BBC News
bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-33691781Silk is usually made from the cocoons spun by silkworms - but there is another, much rarer, cloth known as sea silk, or byssus, which comes from a clam.
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Silk is usually made from the cocoons spun by silkworms - but there is another, much rarer, cloth known as sea silk, or byssus, which comes from a clam.