Day 2: Silk Museum and Lumiere

The most interesting thing I Learned from our tours of the Silk Museum as well as the tour of the Lumiere Institute would have to be the silk weaving machine itself. Not only was the machine and concept itself was complex but also the parts needed to assemble it. 18 MONTHS!!??? To piece a machine together??? That's crazy I work in a mill over the summer and any time we are changing jobs and it takes over 3 hours I get frustrated. The patience and endurance the silk weavers had is very much valued and appreciated for a commodity we very much take for granted today.