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.