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The Pentium as a Navajo weaving

righto.com/2024/08/pentium-navajo-fairchild-shiprock.html

Hurrying through the National Gallery of Art five minutes before closing, I passed a Navajo weaving with a complex abstract pattern. Suddenl...

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• ·3 months ago

Chiara Vigo: The last woman who makes sea silk - BBC News

bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-33691781

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.

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• ·9 years ago