Members of the Morus Community documents their parallel processes of home-sericulture in a collective diary. Through the diary, a mapping of mulberry trees, weather and other circumstances that affect the cycles of the silkworms is formulated.
The aim of the collective diary is to build an archive of collected knowledge of home-sericulture on a small scale. This has so far not been written, as the historical texts and descriptions of sericulture found in archives are aimed at industrial production with markedly different conditions.
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Day 6
Also this year brought a bit of a dramatic hatching. On Monday last week, Kleopatra brought new eggs from the Agricultural University of Athens with her to Copenhagen. They started to hatch on Tuesday, and on Wednesday, when I arrived, around a 100 had hatched. We brought them to Maja’s studio where they spent their…
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The unexpected hatching
A little more than one year ago, in the end of May 2023, Kleopatra sent me a package from Athens with bombyx mori-eggs from the University of Agriculture. Unexpectedly and unfortunately, many of the eggs hatched on the way to Gothenburg. When I opened the package, many of the baby worms had died, but 9…
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Leaves on their way
In Seminarieparken in Gothenburg, the mulberry leaves are finally on their way to break.
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Spring robes
Today we visited professor Goras at the University of Agriculture in Athens. The leaves of the mulberry trees are breaking very early this year! The students practice sericulture every year. This year the Morus group will host thread making workshops for the students to show a possible continuation, and to tell the story about our…
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