The word 'silken' is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that has a soft, smooth texture. For example, "The silken fabric glided across my skin."
The First Lady cleverly chose a silk shift dress by Mumbai-born, New York-based designer Naeem Khan, deftly combining a western silhouette with a skirt embellished in exotic silken embroidery that would not have looked out of place on a Rajasthani maharaja.
This week the Metro freesheet said that Manuel Pellegrini had been "officially unveiled as the new manager of Manchester City," and I imagined the Queen pulling on a silken rope attached to the velvet cloth covering Mr Pellegrini's head.
White soy sauce makes for a pale custard that looks like silken tofu, but if you can't get hold of it, regular light soy sauce will do.
It turns out to be a couple of questions squeezed into the end of a busy morning spent granting audiences to devotees, and draping khataks, white silken scarves, round their necks.
Paderni simply took a knife to them, and though his contemporary Antonio Piaggio, a conservator from the Vatican, managed to build a rack that suspended them from silken threads, letting them unroll under their own weight for months on end, they still tended to break into pieces.
Today it envelops me like a silken web, enervating and soft, and sets me apart from everybody else.Yet the ennui that marked this second period had less to do with nostalgia than nausea.
"Why is his silken line made so very frail and thin?/He only goes into the lake to feed a single person," reads one poem.
Perhaps Shakespeare's portrait of political treachery and silken tongues tallies with a time in which heroism has given way to scepticism as the lingua franca of the age.
Photos, models, study sketches and videos exude the energy of post-war, post-colonial new beginnings.The contrasts are dramatic: SEPRA Arquitectos, an Argentinian firm founded in 1936, and Clorindo Testa, a pioneer of the country's brutalist movement, wrapped the glass walls of a Buenos Aires bank building with hole-dotted piers of silken concrete.
A pair of these silken knee-length wonders once sported by the Sultan hang lovingly framed in the office of Deha Orhan, Turkey's leading producer of underwear.
Van Dyck was able to get across the luxuriousness, romance and richness of the silken clothes without occupying himself with reproducing them in detail.
