The Most Expensive Silk in The World, On The Verge Of Extinction, Cannot Be Bought With Money
Aug 09, 2022
Some people are not unfamiliar with silk. It is satin made of silk, which is soft, smooth, and has certain skin-nourishing functions!
We all know that the price of silk is not cheap, but what we don't know is that the most expensive silk in the world is a priceless treasure that money can't buy!
This kind of silk is called marine silk, also called byss silk!
Ocean silk is difficult to make
Although it is called silk, marine silk is different from ordinary satin, because it is not woven with silk, its raw material is taken from a huge clam in the deep sea!
The living habits of clams are very special. Under the impact of the waves, the sediment washed into the shell will stimulate them to secrete a special mucus, which will become raw silk after solidification. Pinna Nobilis".
In addition, this kind of clam has strict requirements on the living environment, and only produces raw silk for a fixed period of time every year, which is very rare!
It is understood that the inheritor of ocean silk personally goes to the bottom of the sea to collect abyss silk every year. She dives three or four hundred times to collect one or two hundred grams of raw materials!
Coupled with the complex processes of soaking, drying, cleaning, dyeing, and hand-woven brocade of raw materials, it takes more than half a year to produce a piece of ocean silk the size of a palm!
You can imagine how precious it is.
Ocean Silk has a long history
Ocean silk has a history of more than 5,000 years, which is almost the same as our silk history.
Some archaeological experts have found that the robes of King Solomon, the bracelets of Egyptian queens, the sacrificial clothes of popes, pharaohs, and priests are all made of abyss silk fibers.
Byssati products are also collected in some well-known foreign museums as treasures of the town hall.
In fact, this marine silk was also produced in ancient my country, but we called it mussel silk and water silk at that time. With the popularity of silk, we gradually stopped making water silk!
At present, Vigo, the curator of the Italian "Atsushi Museum", is the only inheritor of the known marine silk. She always sticks to her own museum, and she also insists on making byssal by hand.
But it is worth mentioning that although this kind of marine silk is extremely valuable, Vigo never regarded it as a product for profit, but gave it to some people in need, because in the marine silk, her whole life is condensed. Sweat and perseverance.
Therefore, the expensive marine silk is something that we cannot buy with money!
The production of marine silk is painstaking and time-consuming. If Vigo fails to find a new heir to this ancient craft, will the marine silk, which has been passed down for more than 5,000 years, be lost forever?
