Spun sea silk yarn, 19th c.
Spun sea silk yarn, 19th century, I-Cagliari, Sardinia. UK-Edinburgh, National Museums of Scotland (MS Inventory 21).
Label: ”Byssus of Pinna squamosa and thread spun of the same. Italy. Italian Commission. International Exhibition 1862”.
At the 1862 World Exhibition in London, sea silk products from Italy were shown for the first time.
The Royal Italian Commission, which had brought these objects to London, offered them to the then Industrial Museum of Scotland, now the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh.