5 May 2008 - posted by NZ Life & Leisure magazine Issue 19 May/June 08
A suicidal encounter with a hot beverage and the close company of two rascally monks- that was how silk made its dramatic entrance into the world of fashion. Legend has it that while the Chinese Empress SI Ling-Shi was sitting under a mulberry tree five thousand years ago, she watched a corpulent caterpillar plunge haplessly into her cup of tea on the not-so-bungy cord of its silk cocoon thread. These acrobatics revealed to the Empress the extent of the precious thread (unwound, the filament of one cocoon would span something like 30 city blocks).
For the rest of the article please refer to NZ Life & Leisure magazine Issue 19 May/June 08
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