Sentence examples for silk trade from inspiring English sources

• Shakespeare in Love director John Madden, will adapt Silk, Alessandor Barricco's tale of the silk trade in France and Japan in the 19th century, as part of his three-picture deal with Miramax.

The silk trade, over which the government held a monopoly, was a primary source of revenue.

The mulberry trees that ring the ramparts remind the visitor of the city's silk trade.

Persia became a centre of silk trade between East and West under the Parthians (247 bce–224 ce).

Justinian had tried early in his reign to divert the silk trade from its route from Persia but without success.

The focus is on Asia and the silk trade, but folk material has been deliberately played down.

10022 (800) 909-7247 Burgundy organza and red silk: Silk Trading Company at ABC Home 888 Broadway New York, N.Y.

Is there something in that silk trading heritage that you recognise in yourself?

Low was graduated as valedictorian of Columbia College in 1870, thereupon entering his father's prosperous importing business and becoming a leader in the tea and silk trades.

Mr. Hajim might well have been speaking of Mr. Almijan, whose costly 12-year habit ruined his family's lucrative silk trading business, left him deep in debt and finally reduced him to a lowly job at a small hotel.

Thinks autos responsible poor silk hat trade.