Mothers, Daughters, and the Lure of Tradition in The Water Women by Bonnie Blaylock
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My guest today is Bonnie Blaylock, author of The Water Women, listed in the Textile Arts category on Art In Fiction.
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Premise for the novel: three generations of Sardinian women guard the ancient craft of byssus weaving, golden "sea silk" harvested from a mollusk, until a 1942 wartime secret changes what gets passed down the family line.
Byssus 101, or the beard of the world's largest mollusk: how a single photo of the Pinna nobilis, a clam that grows up to four feet tall off the coast of Sardinia, sent Bonnie down the research…
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