While humans and other vertebrates have an internal skeleton surrounded by soft tissue that quickly rots away, ants are encased in an external skeleton; their soft tissues shrivel into dry threads and lumps, but their exoskeletons remain, a knight's armor fully intact long after the knight is gone.
Iran is by far the world's most important producer: in 2005 it grossed some 230 t of dry threads, or 93.7 percent of the year's global total mass; much of the Iranian crop was bound for export.
On display were dried bean threads, dried seaweed, dried squid, dried octopus, dried lotus root, dried birds-nests, lup up (dried duck), dried tangerine peel, canned fried spotty fish, pickled ginger, preserved turnips, braised bamboo tips, bean curd, tiger balm dried scallops, and preserved eggs, wrapped in a poultice of earth & herbs, & guaranteed to be at least a year old.
Fig. 13 a Swollen and dried threads of hydrogel with varying pore size and connectivity, b vertices of interwoven foam threads.
Once the final layer has dried, thread the chain through the jump ring.
Dry grey threads of hair complete the portrait of decay.
Roughly 150 flowers together yield 1 g of dry saffron threads; to produce 12 g of dried saffron (or 72 g moist and freshly harvested), 1 kg of flowers are needed; 1 lb yields 0.2 oz of dried saffron.
Purchases noted on bills include cloth and various dry goods (ribbon, thread, lace).
Made from long, thin strips of dried leaves threaded together to fold up accordion-style, most have a single large image — of Ganesha, say, or Sarasvati, the goddess of books and knowledge — dashed off in fleet strokes.
Take the dry beads and thread them onto a necklace thread.
According to the department's instructions to the Texas company, the uniforms, which include red coats with tails and black and silver trim, must be "London Cold Water shrunk," whatever that means, and made with heat-resistant, vat-dyed, dry cleanable, moisture-proof thread.
