Horological Meandering

Here’s one of mine, with a fully hand-stitched portrait of the classical Chinese painting “Duo of Swallows amidst the Snow Pear Tree”. The innovation and skills required to fuse an artisanal and traditionally-crafted silk dial with a metal dial base is a ...  

You can be proud of your watches.

What happens to the fabric when they get old?

They are lovely. I am wondering how the migration of even very small amounts of oil through the hand arbors might eventually stain the cloth. Is this a concern?