Art, Culture, Curiosity / 24.07.2023

In a romantic and industrious 19th century Italy, silk production became entwined with the advent and rise of advertising posters. It’s an unusual link between seemingly different and distant worlds. How and why did this unexpected union between trade, visual art and communication come about?...

 
Art, Curiosity / 15.11.2020

“My poems have a silky sound, like the rustling of your dress on the stairs.” Hermann Hesse. Silk is like music. Not just for the soft and romantic rustling we can appreciate when we wear silk-made dresses, but also because silk is used to produce the strings we see on many music instruments. ...