Sentence examples for considerable silk from inspiring English sources

In any case, such a disaster would make an end of the modest Budget surpluses which Italy, unlike the other great Continental nations, has been able of late years to achieve, and the ruin of a flourishing port with considerable silk industries and of a large area of fertile country must alone cut off much of the revenue of the kingdom.

Originally an agricultural area noted for dairy farming, domestic spinning and weaving led to a considerable silk and, in the 20th century, cotton industry.

Unavailability of 2.5 3.15-mm and 0.315–0.5-mm grains caused a reduction of larvae building in groups, more use of grains with intermediate size, changes of several other grain characteristics (e.g. number, circularity) and considerable investment into silk to maintain the case resistance.

Silk threads (and silk ribbons).

The improved understanding of spidroin relationships we provide using both N- and C-terminal domains shows that there is considerable evolutionary flexibility throughout the spider silk system, from the level of gene sequence motif to paralog number and silk gland expression pattern.

He made a considerable number of prints, including colour silk screens.

Now, if you do leave behind a considerable amount (say, 2/3) of husks, silk and tassel, and boil those with the corn...you're in for an even bigger benefit: your corn will taste more corny after it has boiled!

He is, rather, simply a charming, wry literary companion, who wears his considerable learning as lightly as a second hand 1950s Italian silk suit bought from Covent Garden, and worn with Converse trainers, and eyewear by Oliver Peoples.

Records of the castle at the time show considerable luxuries, including valuable tapestries up to 60 feet long, silk bedclothes, rich furs and silver bowls and utensils.

Other major centres include Zunyi, which has a considerable amount of heavy industry and is also the focus of silk textile production, and the municipality of Liupanshui, with its coal-based extractive and other heavy industries.

Although silk fibroin is water-absorbent, SF membranes will first float since considerable time is required for its saturation.