Songsilk

No one is quite sure how tiple spiders came to the Comet, but the Comet is fortunate indeed that they find the Heart Garden comfortable enough to breed and produce their songsilk, which brings in enough for the Artisans to make their own designer clothes dyed with the chemicals in the Comet Orchid to produce brilliant shimmering fabric.

Properties

Material Characteristics

Songsilk is a flexible, lightweight silk that is normally sheer but can be blended with other fabrics to make a more opaque material. Songsilk takes most natural and artificial dyes, and dyes made from Comet Orchids make the fabrics iridescent, and when the dye is freshly applied, bioluminescent. Songsilk can be woven into bolts of cloth, spun into embroidery thread or yarn, or made into ribbons.

Physical & Chemical Properties

Songsilk is a must have for performers and orators - most have their own custom made songsilk piece for it's resonant properties. In their natural state, tiple spiderwebs create resonant harmonies to the sounds around them. Songsilk can be woven or embroidered to create structural textiles that can create natural harmonies, counterpoints,and even polyphonic harmonies. Dissonant songsilk can be created, but has few uses and is often unwoven and repurposed. Because of songsilk's unique resonant properties, it is commonly avoided outside of creative circles because of it's ability to cast echoes at inconvenient times.

Compounds

Most songsilk is used in ribbons or bolts of cloth; but orators who prefer more subtle applications can use songsilk embroidery to help amplify or make their voices sound more resonant and pleasant. Most textile artisans on the Comet know the special techniques used to make Songsilk embroidery.

Origin & Source

Tiple spiders are medium yellow-brown spiders with an elongated body shaped like a stretched out guitar and eight legs. They are not poisonous and have displayed a limited musical ability in using their legs as bows and playing their webs to attract prey by mimicking their sounds.