Gile Jile or what have you.

[Rick]

Originally Posted by David R

"You can't make a silk purse out of a pigs ear"!

Well, it isn't quite silk, but it has been done.

Building on advances in the synthetic-fiber industry, Arthur D. Little had 100 pounds of sows’ ears reduced to glue, which the company’s chemists then dissolved, filtered, and finally turned into fiber. The “silk” fiber was woven into two small purses that resemble the kind used by French nobility in the Middle Ages. Today one purse is stored at the National Museum of American History, while the other is at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.