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$1,180
Penelope Dark Blue/Light Blue / No. 058
$680
Silk knit umbrella-style dress with peplum-style bottom.
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Knit Library Data
No. 058
Name: Penelope
Stitch: Jersey
Gauge: 12gg
Materials: 50% Tussah Silk, 50% Mulberry Silk
Made in: Peru
Sizes: XS - L
Collage: People's Republic of China
XS= BUST 32” WAIST 24” HIPS 34”
S= BUST 34” WAIST 25” HIPS 35”
M= BUST 36” WAIST 29” HIPS 39”
L= BUST 37” WAIST 30” HIPS 40”
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Artifacts
Concept & System By: Autumn Hrubý
Research: Autumn Hrubý, Lily Gradante
System Production: Miye Mccullough
Country Artifact Text By: Julia Berick
Collage by: Autumn Hrubý
Production: Hesperios
All Knitwear Design By:
Autumn Hrubý
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People’s Republic of China
Humans have been cultivating silk for 5000 years. The name for this process is sericulture. The term conjures a team of dedicated farmers tending to plants with silken leaves, but silk is not a product of plants but of insects. Silk is the material silkworms produce to build their chrysalis. Within a cocoon made from one continuous 1000-foot strand—one of the strongest materials on earth—silkworms metamorphize into moths. Silkworms eat only mulberry leaves. In China there are fifteen species, of which four species, Morus alba, M. multicaulis, M. atropurpurea, and M. mizuho are cultivated for sericulture. It would be poetic if the moths returned the favor to the mulberry, but the chief pollinating agent of mulberry is wind.