Silk, before it becomes cloth, resists in many small ways. Tangled silk yarn slipping through fingers gets reeled onto bobbins only to break while warping, while weaving picks, and while fixing broken ends. Delicate but demanding, each pause means a careful next move that reveals the quiet discipline of skilled weavers who do this every day without spectacle. This sample encounters one such experience ; woven on a tussar silk warp with the finest dharmavaram silk, eri silk, muga silk and tussar silk in turns as wefts.