milk-weed-silk

Updated: May 12, 2025

At Sara's entrance, however, he awoke with a start; and Sara was terribly startled herself, because it was the first time anybody had really taken any notice of her. "Bring her some butter!" he commanded. At his command four of the courtiers drifted away, and presently returned carrying a silvery-white cloth, very rich and lustrous, woven of many thicknesses of milk-weed-silk.

Karle Wilson Baker - The Garden of the Plynck