This is a neat article.
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Mrs. Drang describes herself as a Fiber Artist. Spinning and dyeing, weaving (which she sometimes describes as tedious), a bit of knitting, sewing...
And, yeah, fiber arts (and technology) have been key in advances in human technology.
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And whoever figured-out that you could make silk from silk-worms...
The traditional description, the cocoon dropping into the princess' teacup, etc., is plausible enough. It's going from "Yuck! Hey, that's interesting..." and doing something with the event, including industrializing (sort of) cultivation of silkworms, that's impressive.
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