Loughborough University
Browse
Pages from ANTENNAE ISSUE 46 (3).pdf (288.54 kB)

Vibrating with spider silk

Download (288.54 kB)
journal contribution
posted on 2019-01-31, 15:18 authored by Eleanor MorganEleanor Morgan
What happens when one making animal meets another? In her book Gossamer Days: spiders, humans and their threads artist and writer Eleanor Morgan explores the strange web of spider-human relationships and the history of the human uses of spider silk; from gun sights to sticky tunics via acoustic lures, royal underwear and the mystery of the disappearing spider goats. In this extract from Gossamer Days, she describes a story of schoolgirls enticing spiders with their singing and how this inspired her own attempt to serenade a spider.

History

School

  • The Arts, English and Drama

Department

  • Arts

Published in

Antennae: the journal of nature in visual culture

Issue

46

Pages

34 - 37 (4)

Citation

MORGAN, E., 2018. Vibrating with spider silk. Antennae: the journal of nature in visual culture, 46, pp.34-37.

Publisher

Antennae Project

Version

  • VoR (Version of Record)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Acceptance date

2018-11-20

Publication date

2018

Notes

This paper was published in the journal Antennae: the journal of nature in visual culture and is also available at http://www.antennae.org.uk/. It appears here with the permission of the publisher.

ISSN

1756-9575

Publisher version

Language

  • en

Administrator link

Usage metrics

    Loughborough Publications

    Categories

    Keywords

    untaggedStudies in the Creative Arts and Writing not elsewhere classified

    Licence

    CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

    Exports

    RefWorks
    BibTeX
    Ref. manager
    Endnote
    DataCite
    NLM
    DC