Smooth as Silk
This morning we visited the Macclesfield Museum of Silk, and the Paradise Silk Mill Museum next door. You may wonder what a mummy case of an Egyptian priestess is doing in a silk museum, but the museum the usually houses the mummy is closed for renovation, and the Victorian lady archeologists who brought it back to Macclesfield bought it with profits from the silk business. Sadly they decided the mummy itself was too smelly to bring back on their boat,…