Sentence examples for silk bound from inspiring English sources

Yaoluchuan, the local equivalents of Venetian gondolas – bigger, chunkier, with historically accurate forms – drift past, freighted with tourists rather than bolts of silk bound for Beijing on the once boat-thronged Grand Canal.

His 1918 picture of a wealthy dowager, swathed in silk, feet bound, cigarette holder clamped between her lips, is a classic embodiment of an antique culture that Maoism and Western modernism would sweep away.

He'd mark the reading with one of several silk ribbons bound into the pages, and I'd take the book out to the lectern and stand there a minute, thinking, Soon I'll be up here, and the light will be on me, and the church will be full of my friends.

The film follows the painstaking process of the silk being bound, hand dyed, woven and finally turned into a kimono by a seamstress.

Qin Guan's book Can Shu (Book of Sericulture) of 1090 described a silk-reeling machine with an oscillating 'proto-flyer', as the apparatus of the main reel of which the silk is bound is wound and powered by treadle motion.

A third silk suture was bound loosely around the artery between the other two.

However, raw silk fibre consists of silk fibroin that is bound together by a hydrophilic glued-liked protein layer called "sericin".

2. Fetishizing of the bonds: There are many items that an individual can be bound with: silk scarves, hemp rope, bamboo or silk rope, handcuffs, leather straps, steel shackles, metal chains -- the list goes on and on.

In 1955 he was found in the town house dead in his silk pajamas, his hands bound.

The resulting blank rod must then be fitted with rings bound with silk, a cork handle and a reel mounting made of polished olive wood.

A broom bound with silk sweeps as well as one bound with string.