Talk:Silk
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[edit] Trade Expansion
Perhaps the first evidence of the silk trade is that of an Egyptian mummy of 1070 BC. In subsequent centuries, the silk trade reached as far as the Indian subcontinent, the Middle East, Europe, and North Africa.
Egypt is farther from China than India or the Middle East, so how does it make sense that expansion to those areas happened "in subsequent centuries"? Nakamura2828 17:55, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
I wanted to know how to wash silk... Not about silk actually, but about "reetha", which is used in washing it.Needsinfo 11:49, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] silk-producing goats
Someone with greater interest in the topic could push this info into the article:
Jeffrey Turner or Nexia Biotechnologies developed silk-producing goats. =)
- By injecting the orb weaver gene into the father of Mille and Muscade, Nexia bred she-goats whose mammary glands are able to produce the complex proteins that make up spider silk. Their milk looks and tastes like the real thing, but once its proteins are filtered and purified into a fine white powder, they can be spun into tough thread. [1]
-- Sy / (talk) 21:01, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
- That is cool. I'm going to add it to the spider silk article though, because this page is about silkworm silk. Tocharianne 03:07, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Mommes Merger
Mommes is an orphan article that is only linked to from here. I can't think of any other article for which it will be useful to link directly to unit of measure for silk. Any objection to simply merging the article into this one? QuixoticKate 19:48, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
- I always support merging orphans, but how about a page for Units of textile measurement? We could include Denier (measure), Tex (unit), Thread count and Thread (unit of measurement) (a cotton yarn measure, equal to 54 inches according to the Thread disambiguation page). (I couldn't find any others.) Tocharianne 21:13, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
- That's a really interesting idea, but I'm not sure how to implement it. The other articles you've named aren't really orphans themselves (5-10 links each). Would we redirect all of those articles to the units of textile measurement article? Maybe the solution is to just create a "Units of Textile Measurement" category. I'm not sure it that really solves the orphan problem, but even though other units of measure have the same problem (see Abcoulomb in Category:Units of electrical charge, for example). QuixoticKate 16:25, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
- It's true they're not orphans, but they are stubs. (I always support merging stubs, too!) They basically are just different ways of referring to the same thing: the "density" of a fabric. The tex (unit) article says that the difference between tex/denier is just UK vs. US English, and the mommes article says that it's the silk equivalent of thread count. Tocharianne 17:04, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
- Fair enough. I'm persuaded that your proposal is the best solution, and I think I'm just going to go ahead and do that once I have time to do so unless anyone else weighs in in the meantime. QuixoticKate 17:51, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
- It's done. QuixoticKate 17:42, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
- Fair enough. I'm persuaded that your proposal is the best solution, and I think I'm just going to go ahead and do that once I have time to do so unless anyone else weighs in in the meantime. QuixoticKate 17:51, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
- It's true they're not orphans, but they are stubs. (I always support merging stubs, too!) They basically are just different ways of referring to the same thing: the "density" of a fabric. The tex (unit) article says that the difference between tex/denier is just UK vs. US English, and the mommes article says that it's the silk equivalent of thread count. Tocharianne 17:04, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
- That's a really interesting idea, but I'm not sure how to implement it. The other articles you've named aren't really orphans themselves (5-10 links each). Would we redirect all of those articles to the units of textile measurement article? Maybe the solution is to just create a "Units of Textile Measurement" category. I'm not sure it that really solves the orphan problem, but even though other units of measure have the same problem (see Abcoulomb in Category:Units of electrical charge, for example). QuixoticKate 16:25, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
