Gloria.tv: Chiara Vigo: Sea Silk Weaver of Sardinia-The Face of God

Irapuato 09/01/2011 15:19:59

ignatiuspress | October 25, 2010 This clip describes sea silk, the fiber used to weave the cloth that is the Holy Veil of Manoppello. Chiara Vigo, of Sardinia, the last remaining weaver of sea silk in the world, talks about its properties. Vigo … [More]

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Irapuato 09/01/2011 16:02:06

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Irapuato 09/01/2011 15:56:22

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Irapuato 09/01/2011 15:39:51

Interview with Chiara Vigo Expert Weaver of Marine Byssus

Above is a copy of a page from the english translation of Paul Badde's historic first article from the Inside the Vatican magazine which was first published in the Die Welt newspaper in Germany. It shows a photograph of Chiara Vigo and also a photograph of her holding a small clump of marine byssus. Click on the article to magnify it so it can be read. To see the entire article of Badde, go to www.voltosanto.de and click on the word … [More]

Irapuato 09/01/2011 15:37:49

Sea silk is an extremely fine, rare and valuable fabric produced from the long silky filaments or byssus secreted by a gland in the foot of several bivalve molluscs (particularly Pinna nobilis L.) by which they attach themselves to the sea bed.[1]
Sea silk was produced in the Mediterranean region from the large bivalve mollusc, Pinna nobilis until early in the 20th century. The shell, which is sometimes almost a metre long, adheres itself to rocks with a tuft of very strong thin fibres, pointed … [More]

Irapuato 09/01/2011 15:35:05

the legendary craft of byssus cloth waving / chiara vigo - august 2002 - the swedish naturalist carl linnaeus, also known as carl von linné or carolus linnaeus (1707-1778) first described the species in 1758. it is an endemic species of the mediterranean, belonging to the family of pinnidae. this large, brown fan-shaped bivalve shellfish, one of the largest in the world, can reach a breadth of 1,2 metres. its habitat is in the coastal region, on the shoals that are either sandy or overgrown by … [More]

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