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<h2 style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Gossamer Days</strong></h2>
<h2 style="text-align: justify;"><em><strong>Spiders, Humans and Their Threads</strong></em></h2>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><strong>by Eleanor Morgan</strong></h3>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1">What happens when one making animal meets another?</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">From gun sights to sticky tunics, via acoustic lures, royal underwear and the mystery of the disappearing spider goats, <em>Gossamer Days</em> examines the strange, centuries-long entanglement between humans and spiders.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Artist and writer Eleanor Morgan has spent a decade working with spiders and their silk. Her explorations sent her around the world in search of one of the world’s largest web-weaving spiders, from South Carolina to a lock-up garage in Sussex.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Weaving and drawing with spider silk led Eleanor to research the lost history of Europe’s attempts to create a spider silk weaving industry and to the ancient, ongoing, sacred use of spider webs in the South Paci c. Legends of schoolgirls tempting spiders with their singing inspired Eleanor’s own attempt to serenade a spider.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">A personal, lively and far-ranging book, <em>Gossamer Days</em> transforms the way we think about spiders and the wonders of their webs.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">About the author:
Eleanor Morgan is a London-based artist, lecturer and writer specialising in the making processes of humans and other animals.  She holds a PhD from the Slade School of Fine Art and has exhibited nationally and internationally at galleries and museums.</p>