May Leung

Silk Cocoon
The cocoon kiosk is a small silk factory, a sustainable ecosystem of mulberry leaves, caterpillars and cocoons – the essential and natural ingredients used to make silk. It hangs in memory of Spitalfields silk weavers that settled here in London, winding and reeling thread, in the 1890’s.
The silk manufacture process is as follows:
Mulberry bush [...]

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