silk

Diamond and Silk aren’t political pundits who talk about the Left, Right, or legislation in the abstract. Their initial interest came from lived experience, and things they saw happen in their community.

Like many wonders of nature, spider silk has remarkable properties that makes it outshine its manmade counterparts to this very day: their threads have have the same tensile strength — the amount of “stretch” a material can endure without breaking — as steel, but is only one-sixth as dense.

Not far from downtown Ottawa is the old mill town of Almonte. Its identity, then and now, is one formed by the Mississippi River, one of the more dramatic tributaries of the Ottawa River. At Almonte, the river’s waterfalls and rapids were once the power source for seven mills whose woolen products were shipped half the world over.