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Silk Trader
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Materials: Various silk fibres, horse and camel hair, merino, mohair and Jacob wool, coir, flax, cop
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125cm x 80cm x 50cm
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£1800.00
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Illustrates the ‘Plight of the Silk Moth’
‘Bombyx Mori’ silk moth has been exploited for centuries by the silk industry. Now only exists in cultivation and is completely dependant on man. It cannot fly, and walks very badly with little ability to eat. Even more shocking, in order to obtain continuous silk threads of up to half a mile in length, the lava inside the cocoons get boiled alive.