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Show The most costly of all kinds of silk hosiery is made from silk which Is not the product of silk worms but a species of shellfish called a puina. Tho puina makes its home in the warm waters of the Mediterranean around Sicily. It has an odd little tube at the end of its tongue. Out of this tube, spider fashion, or silkworm , I fashion, It spins a silk thread with ; which it fastens itself to any rock to which it wishes to adhere. When the puina moves on to fresh feeding grounds its atlkon cuble is left behind. , This cable, which is called byssus, tho Sicilian fishermen gather. Byssus weaves Into the softest, finest, shceni-est shceni-est of fabrics, but It is very rare and the stockings woven from It consc- ; , quently are as has been said. ex- . ceedlnyly 'expensive. New England . Fisheries- |