Silk is usually made from the cocoons spun by silkworms - but there is another, much rarer, cloth known as sea silk or byssus, which comes from a clam. Chiara Vigo is thought to be the only person ...

The ultra-rare material made from fibers – byssus – harvested from giant mollusks was once the height of fashion, for items such as the hat going under the hammer in New York On Wednesday, a curious ...

A luxurious fiber once reserved exclusively for emperors in ancient times has been brought back to life by Korean researchers. A team led by Professor Dong Soo Hwang and Professor Jimin Choi has ...

You probably won’t see them at the fish counter, but when mussels are hauled in fresh from the sea, their byssus threads – forming a yellowish mat of fine hairs – are sometimes still hanging from the ...

Byssus, or sea silk, is one of the most coveted materials in the world – but after more than 1,000 years in the same matrilineal family tree, this ancient thread may soon unravel. Each spring, under ...

The sticky threads that mussels use to attach themselves to rocks could be used to repair bones, tendons and even replace stitches. Richard Gray Richardgray 23 July 2013 • 4:00pm Mussels use byssus ...

Unique in the Mediterranean, it is the custodian of an ancient art that it preserves with love and passion, and projects into the future. He devoted much of his energy and time to the valorization and ...

Protein-based biogenic materials provide important inspiration for the development of high-performance polymers. The fibrous mussel byssus, for instance, exhibits exceptional wet adhesion, abrasion ...

Seastex has conceptualised and designed the Acoustic Byssus Core Tile. The Acoustic Byssus Core (ABC) Tile is a circular, safe and sustainable line of acoustic products featuring an innovative mussel ...

When mussels dangle from marine surfaces, they hold on by a cluster of fine threads. These filaments may appear flimsy, but they can actually withstand powerful impacts from currents or crashing waves ...