// Quasi- Objects, C studies, Lorenzo Oggiano, 2010- 2011  via liam-young

Silkworm farm at Ayot St. Lawrence in Hertfordshire, Britain (1957). The silk, produced in this farm was used for the wedding and coronation robes of her majesty, Queen Elizabeth II of England. 

Dark Spore, acrylic paint, polystyrene, 790 x 930 x 810 mm, by Rohan Wealleans, 2007 [via iceblack]

/// Yellow Heart, Haus Rucker Co., 1968

/// Traubenkirschen Gespinstmotte

/// Nanofibres like silk worm silk, spider silk and collagen, Nanotechweb, 2007

/// Silk production Made in Switzerland, Schweiz Aktuell 12/06/09

/// Worms on special diet make fluorescent silk, New Scientist 16/03/2011

/// 3D Full Term Baby Phantom ATS 3DFB, Supertech 2011

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/// Unknown source

/// When oil was discovered along the Kern River bank in 1899 near Bakersfield, California, thousands of fortune seekers, oil companies, and railroads rushed to the state, setting up oil fields up and down the coast. This particular picture is from Huntington Beach (Surf City) from 1928.

/// Standing male écorché, showing musculature. Juan Valverde de Amusco, 1556.

/// Z-machine, Sandia National Laboratories, 1960