Sentence examples for silk trading from inspiring English sources

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?

The Silk Trading Company, 39 North Moore Street, will give 10percentt off fabrics, with no labor fee on selected draperies.

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.

The Silk Trading Company is consolidating its warehouses and selling fabrics, pillows and ready-made draperies at discounts of 30 to 80percentt from Aug. 14 to 29 (silk draperies, originally $295 to $350 a panel, will be $125; sheer cotton fabric, originally $20 a yard, will be about $5); Silk Trading Company, (646) 602-3544 at ABC Carpet & Home, 888 Broadway (19th Street), (212) 473-3000.

• 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.

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

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

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.