Sentence examples for silk made from inspiring English sources

According to company accounts, Djanogly's brother-in-law, Ben Silk, made £130,000 from the two firms last year.

Cultures nearly clash in a towering tapestry of embroidered silk made in China for the Portuguese market in the first half of the 17th century.

A hank of cotton or of the spun silk made from short lengths of waste silk is 840 yards (770 m) long.

His python jacket appeared to be as soft as knit, while his actual wool, woven as honeycomb or melded with silk, made simple silhouettes rich in texture.

During the 15th and 16th centuries the production and export of silk made Vicenza one of the richest cities in Europe.

5. Boxy cushions in Habutai silk made by Huê were designed by Ron Briggs of Maine and Nan Duc Than, a tailor in Ho Chi Minh City.

Until then, however, he is working with reconstituted silkworm silk, making novel films and other materials.

Occasionally a tailored coat could looked momsy, but mostly the collection felt light and spontaneous — not least the fish scales of silk making up a skirt.

And that silk is selling for around $70 a kilogram, or $32 a pound, much more than the $50 a kilogram paid for imported silk, making it much less competitive when attracting buyers from abroad.

The 58 abstract works, many of them extraordinarily beautiful, were produced near Lyon in eastern France, at the only manufacture that associated highly advanced computer technology with century-old know how in silk making.

Jim Thompson, byname of James H.w. Thompson (born March 21 , 1906 Greenville, Del., U.S. died March 26 , 1967 near Tanah Rata, Malaysia?) American-born Thai businessman who turned Thai silk making into a major industry selling worldwide and became an authority on Thai art.