Nearly all the workers lost their houses, the accountant and vet disappeared along with their families, but after the deadly earthquake that devastated Turkey's Hatay province, "the silk of peace" is helping make new connections. "I had to convince myself to start up again," admits Emel Duman, rolling between her fingers a small and incredibly fine ball of fibres. The yellow cocoons, with which she spins and weaves natural silk, have been her life's project. Duman's home was destroyed in the February disaster and she lives with her family in a silk cooperative workshop on the heights overlooking Antakya.

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