A favorable wind fills their silk sails, the sun burnishes the glory of their golden prows, and they sail out of sight calmly, majestically, distancing themselves forever from us and our cramped harbor.
All the right materials were found there, for kite-making: bamboo for the frame, and silk for the sail and bridle.
Nearly 3,000 years ago the kite was first popularized, if not invented, in China, where materials ideal for kite building were readily available: silk fabric for sail material, fine, high-tensile-strength silk for flying line, and resilient bamboo for a strong, lightweight framework.
This spider persists in heterogeneous environments because of its ability to recolonise areas through active long-distance airborne dispersal using silk as a sail, in a process termed 'ballooning'ballooning
Ruth is recalling being rowed across the lake at dawn: "The fragmented image of jonquil sky spilled from top to top of the rounding waves as the shine spills on silk, and gulls sailed up into the very height of the sky... " Such prose tells us that this is just as it was.
By releasing silk on water, sailing spiders seem to act like ships dropping their anchors to slow down or stop their movement.
So, yes, they can do a new variation on cargo pants, but now it comes with an intricately pleated blouse in teal silk that suggests fluted sail points, or a loose, layered smoke-gray top over a black wrap skirt.
Silk threads (and silk ribbons).
Diana's love of sailing may have been inherited from ancestors who sailed tea and silk clippers from China to Bristol.
The set is uncomplicated, using material in rich desert colours, with Islamic blue-and-white patterned floor cloths and long pieces of silk that become tents and sails of ships.
