Sea silk

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 mollusks (particularly Pinna nobilis L.) by which they attach themselves to the sea bed. Sea silk was produced in the Mediterranean region from the large bivalve mollusk, Pinna nobilis, until early in the 20th century. The shell, which is sometimes almost a metre long, adheres itself to rocks ... more

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