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A Sugar-Dusting Of Frost

A Sugar-Dusting Of Frost

I’m sitting here on a beautiful bright and frosty morning. The sky is that watery winter blue, with barely a trace of cloud, and although the sun rose some hours ago, the ground frost is lingering, dusting the earth like icing sugar. The sunlight is a welcome relief from those…

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Five Fascinating Facts About Silk

Five Fascinating Facts About Silk

Silk is exceptional as a natural fibre.  Silk is a long filament. Silk is the only natural filament woven into fabric. Each fibre of silk is a continuous filament between 600 and 1500m in length*. That means that a single fibre of silk could as a minimum be dangled from the top…

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