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Byssus

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Spinning Silk from the Sea

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Mussels inspire surgical glue invention

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The byssus of the marine mussel

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Chiara Vigo only woman in the world to weave sea silk made from Byssus

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Weaving Sea Silk Chiara Vigo still works the byssus

A byssus is a bundle of filaments secreted by many species of bivalve mollusk that function to attach the mollusk to a solid surface. Species from several families of clams have a byssus, including the pen shells, the true mussels and the false mussels: the Pinnidae, the Mytilidae and the Dreissenidae.