#the silkworm

[anxiousresearchraptor]

"His jaw was grimy with stubble and bruise-colored shadows enlarged his dark eyes. […] Six minutes later, in a clean shirt, smelling of toothpaste and deodorant but still unshaven, Strike entered the outer office where Robin was sitting at her computer."

Well, he's reading in this case, but – heavily inspired by The Silkworm.

(It's a light and colour study at this point.)

[thesefilespod]

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[korob0k]

Пёсели

Меня попросили нарисовать Джонатана. Я подумал, что я Денни постоянно обделяю вниманием, нарисовал его тоже^^

I was asked to draw Jonathan. I thought that I was constantly neglecting Danny, so I drew him too^^

Ещё меня что-то дёрнуло порисовать тутовых шелкопрядов. И я подумал, что Эрина похожа на шелкопряда… что. Ну ладно

I also had this urge to draw silkworms. And I thought Erina looked like a silkworm… what. Oh well.

[birdwatcheragent1]

CS Re-read: TS

aw, he's a tidy boy

[calabria-mediterranea]

Catanzaro, Calabria, Italy

This ancient town which rises on a rock is the capital of the Calabria region. It was founded in 9th century by the Byzantines and was built over three hills in order to protect the town from the Saracen attacks arriving from the lonian sea.

At the beginning of the tenth century (c. 903), the city of Catanzaro was occupied by the Muslim Saracens, who founded an emirate and took the Arab name of قطنصار - Qatanşār.

An Arab presence is evidenced by findings at an eighth-century necropolis which had items with Arabic inscriptions. Around the year 1050, Catanzaro rebelled against Saracen dominance and returned to a brief period of Byzantine control.

Under the Byzantine dominion, between the end of the 9th and the beginning of the 10th century, Calabria was one was one the first places in Italy to introduce the breeding of the silkworm in the 11th century.

According to French historian André Guillou, mulberry trees for the production of raw silk were introduced to Calabria by the Byzantines at the end of the 9th century. Mulberry leaves are the only leaves that silkworms eat.

Around 1050, the theme of Calabria had cultivated 24,000, mulberry trees for their foliage, with growth still ongoing.

The peasants of the countryside around the city produced the raw silk, which was then woven in the silk workshops of Catanzaro. A large part of the population was involved in this business, and the silk of Catanzaro supplied almost all of Europe.

The silk was sold in a large market fair in the port of Reggio Calabria, to Spanish, Venetians, Genovese and Dutch merchants.

Today, three young friends have come together to bring local traditions back to the fore. In 2014 they decided to build their future in San Floro, a tiny village of 600 inhabitants near the city of Catanzaro and restore the traditional mulberry tree planting and cultivation needed for the rearing of silkworms. Historically, San Floro was famous for a very significant production of raw silk in the 17th century, though this heritage had been completely lost in modern times.

The only surviving elements of this rich legacy were the 3,000 abandoned mulberry trees and the memory of the elderly villagers. Miriam and her friends brought back the production of silk, rewinding the threads of history and travelling across the world to exchange best practices with silk institutes in Thailand, India, Switzerland, and France.

As part of its development, they trained people interested in their new, sustainable production model and also brought thousands of tourists from all over the world to visit their farm (Nido di Seta) to experience how silk is produced first-hand.

Catanzaro is a windy city due to its altitude and position between two seas. In fact, there is only 30 km separating the Ionian Sea from the Tyrrhenian Sea and Catanzaro is wide open to the constant strong breezes from the Ionian Sea and the Sila mountains.

Follow us on Instagram, @calabria_mediterranea

[verucac]

Rereading Cormoran Strike

Robin's middle name - a reminder of perhaps a second honeymoon of her parents

Cormoran's middle name - a reminder, that he wasn't from the "right" father and her love lay somewhere else...

[innominaterifter]

The song of the Flëur group "Silkworm" in Ukrainian. I made the translation into English with subtitles in a hurry, but after some time, I will try to make one that can be sing in English.

I really like this song, and inside me, it really resonates with the image of Taylor.

[cuntykonellover]

Silkworm the beloved