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Continue reading →: Puzzle [solved already]
Regular readers know that I occasionally post a puzzle. People email me with photos of odd things, and I ask the textile HiveMind for help (and if you have a puzzler, please send it!). [This one was solved before I even got to post it, since I happened to mention…
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Continue reading →: Something from the internet
Someday I will post my own stuff again… but meanwhile here’s something interesting. Silkworms engineered to produce spider silk If Spider-Man ever ran out of webs, he could now enlist an army of silkworms to spin extra high-tensile spider silk. Scientists have created a genetically modified silkworm that spins a…
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Continue reading →: Testing take 2
I’m almost out of coffee, so you won’t be subjected to much more of this.
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Continue reading →: Rainy morning
And I am drinking a lot of coffee and testing some blog things. Apologies for the extraneous micro-posts.
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Continue reading →: FFFFF 2010
I’m very pleased to announce that ACG, the next SCA group to the east, has stepped in to resolve the staffing difficulties that forced me to cancel FFF. It is ON!!! And thank you to Denys and all the folks who offered to help out to make this happen. I…
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Continue reading →: The odder side of fiber animals
It has been a long and insane week at work (crisis appears to have been averted, at least) and rather than the stuff I’d intended to post this week, you get video entertainment. I have bags and bags of dog fur saved up to spin. I’m just not going to…
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Continue reading →: Piles of silk
I’ve been saving up tidbits for you, but didn’t get to them this weekend because I did this instead. That’s 5,400 yards of silk in ten colors. [No wait! I woke up in the middle of the night and realized that’s really 6,400 dyed yards, or 64 skeins.] At the…
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Continue reading →: Changing seasons
Everyone is preparing for autumn. Baking season has begun, with sourdough cinnamon bread. Next week is my last field trip of the season. The bees are frantically collecting every last drop of nectar. Knitting is starting to sound appealing again. Working with wool just isn’t much fun during a 90F…
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Continue reading →: Oddments
Busy, obviously. Work, and other work, and other other work. And I fried the power cord for my netbook. I’m not computerless, but not having the tiny portable thing cuts down on spontaneous blogging. But I’ve been saving things for you. My Little Cthulhu, by artist Spippo. And in the…
Welcome!
I’ve been doing stuff with string for quite some time, and describing it to others online since 1996 or so at Phiala’s String Page.
I also do some science and write some fiction.
I’m Phiala most places on the internet.
