How to Spin Silk (51 Yarns #17 'Silk')

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PLY Magazine is running a Spinalong to coincide with the launch of their book, 51 Yarns to Spin Before You Cast Off. You can post your entries on their Facebook, Instagram and Ravelry groups with the hashtags #51yarns, #handspunyarn and #plymagazine. There's a different theme each week and you can find a list of the topics and other information here: plymagazine.com/ply-books/51-... The best part is that one winner each week gets a one-year subscription to PLY! I've decided to play along in video form as well by creating a video each week to correspond with that week's spinalong theme.
This week it's "Silk" and I'm spinning up two sample skeins to run an experiment with direction of twist - does silk produce a nicer knitted fabric if I ply it clockwise or anti-clockwise? Resources this week included Ply Magazine's Silk issue: plymagazine.com/product/silk-... and Interweave's "Spinning Luxury Fibers" with Judith MacKenzie: www.interweave.com/store/spin...
As I'm still catching up, I'll be skipping straight to Week 21: True Worsted and coming back to cover weeks 18-20 at a later date.