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Silk - A History in Three Metamorphoses (Hardcover)
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Silk - A History in Three Metamorphoses (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R544
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In a gorgeous history that spans continents and millennia, Aarathi
Prasad weaves together the complex story of the queen of fabrics.
Through the scientists who have studied silk, and the biology of
the animals from which it has been drawn, Prasad explores the
global history, natural history, and future of a unique material
that has fascinated the world for millennia. For silk, prized for
its lightness, luminosity, and beauty is also one of the strongest
biological materials ever known. More than a century ago, it was
used to make the first bulletproof vest, and yet science has barely
even begun to tap its potential. As the technologies it has
inspired - from sutures to pharmaceuticals, replacement body parts
to holograms - continue to be developed in laboratories around the
world, they are now also beginning to offer a desperately needed,
sustainable alternative to the plastics choking our planet.
Prasad's Silk is a cultural and biological history from the origins
and ancient routes of silk to the biologists who learned the
secrets of silk-producing animals, manipulating the habitats and
physiologies of moths, spiders and molluscs. Because there is more
than one silk, there is more than one story of silk. More than one
road, more than one people who discovered it, and wove its threads.
From the moths of China, Indonesia and India to the spiders of
South America and Madagascar, to the silk-producing molluscs of the
Mediterranean, Silk is a book rich in the passionate connections
made by women and men of science to the diversity of the animal
world. It is an intoxicating mix of biography, intellectual history
and science writing that brings to life the human obsession with
silk.
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