A rare luxury cloth with a beautiful golden sheen, known as sea silk, was made from the long silky filaments or byssus produced by Pinna nobilis, a large Mediterranean seashell.
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Wild silk, that is, cocoons collected from the wild after the insect had eaten its way out, also was known.
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