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The Friday Photo: Silk and Silk Moths

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This is a piece of eighteenth century ecclesiastical silk from Italy.

And below are the bizarre creatures that produced it: silk moths, at the end of their entirely captive lifecycle, crawling out of their cocoons, unable to fly, and starting, almost instantly, to breed again.

I like the way the two pictures form similar patterns. How about you?

Silk moths emerge from their cocoons and begin to lay eggs.

Pictures come from the excellent Silk Museum in Bsous: we absolutely loved the Silk Museum Lebanon. For more pretty pictures, click here.

2 Responses

  1. Megan says:
    June 8, 2012 at 12:04 pm

    Wow, even the worms/butterflies’s shadows look like patterns. Nice

    • Theodora says:
      June 9, 2012 at 9:39 am

      Thank you! Some of those are icky worm fluids.

      I find them amazing creatures. They’ve been so selectively bred that they can’t see, or fly, or really do anything other than emerge, bloated, and procreate. A metaphor for us all. *gulp*