Today, Vigo is believed to be the last person on Earth who still knows how to harvest, dye and embroider sea silk into elaborate patterns that glisten like gold in the sunlight.
And this is disgusting:
What’s more, after creating the world’s only museum dedicated to
byssus in 2005, Vigo awoke one day last autumn to find that the
government of Sant’Antioco had unexpectedly closed her free Museo del Bisso, citing that the building’s electrical system wasn’t up to code.
“The
‘electrical problem’ was me!” Vigo snapped. “The municipality tried to
force me to charge entrance fees and write down my patterns and secrets.
But I will defend this sacred oath with my fingernails as long as I
breathe!”
Damn all petty, power-hungry bureaucrats.
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