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Silk threads back a long way

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Title Silk threads back a long way
 
Creator Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
 
Description Gareth Davies writes from Waterloo in Belgium in response to the article inspired by ICIPE on 'Silk route now through Africa' in Spore 92. 'The manufacture of local silk and its use in garment making in Africa does predate ICIPE. There used to be a West African tradition of fancy embroidery based in natural silk extracted from spider webs of different varieties.'
Gareth Davies writes from Waterloo in Belgium in response to the article inspired by ICIPE on 'Silk route now through Africa' in Spore 92. 'The manufacture of local silk and its use in garment making in Africa does predate ICIPE. There used to...
 
Date 2001
2014-10-16T09:06:05Z
2014-10-16T09:06:05Z
 
Type News Item
 
Identifier CTA. 2001. Silk threads back a long way. Spore 95. CTA, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
1011-0054
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/46341
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/99598
 
Language en
 
Relation Spore
 
Rights Open Access
 
Publisher Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
 
Source Spore