Muschelseide (sea silk)

goldene Fäden vom Meeresgrund

19th of March until 27 of June 2004

The PROJECT SEA-SILK (Bisso marino) at the Natural History Museum in Basel, Switzerland
has three main goals:
compiling an inventory of all objects in sea-silk still existing in museums and private collections worldwide;
tracing the history of this almost forgotten textile material made of the byssus of the sea shell Pinna nobilis
and its production and manufacture;
documentation of the knowledge and the remains of this cultural heritage
of South Italy and the Mediterranean countries.