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<blockquote data-quote="Buttercup" data-source="post: 748887" data-attributes="member: 990">A creature that inhabits the lake, and weaves a substance similar to spider silk?&nbsp; Hmm.&nbsp; Would this creature be dangerous, or would it be domesticated?&nbsp; It might be cool to have &quot;sea-silk worm&quot; farms.&nbsp; There could be large floating platforms that the farmers would live on, at least during &quot;silk milking&quot; season or something.&nbsp; And maybe the processing of the stuff would be dangerous or stinky or something, which would raise the price of the finished sea silk thread.&nbsp; The city might forbid the sale of the thread, like Venice did with glass beads (or was that Florence?&nbsp; don't remember off the top of my head) so that they could have a monopoly on sea silk fabric.&nbsp; And maybe the city would therefore want to heavily police the lake to prevent sea silk worm theft.&nbsp; But of course, it's hard to make an open body of water 100% secure....</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Buttercup, post: 748887, member: 990"] A creature that inhabits the lake, and weaves a substance similar to spider silk? Hmm. Would this creature be dangerous, or would it be domesticated? It might be cool to have "sea-silk worm" farms. There could be large floating platforms that the farmers would live on, at least during "silk milking" season or something. And maybe the processing of the stuff would be dangerous or stinky or something, which would raise the price of the finished sea silk thread. The city might forbid the sale of the thread, like Venice did with glass beads (or was that Florence? don't remember off the top of my head) so that they could have a monopoly on sea silk fabric. And maybe the city would therefore want to heavily police the lake to prevent sea silk worm theft. But of course, it's hard to make an open body of water 100% secure.... [/QUOTE]

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