Sentence examples for weaving silk from inspiring English sources

He would sup wine with him from amber cups, loll on chaises longues, watch pretty maidens weaving silk under the willow trees and the peach blossoms falling.

Owing to restrictions imposed by the guilds in the towns, this growth essentially occurred in the countryside; urban entrepreneurs provided raw materials to peasants, who were unable to subsist solely on their land and supplemented their incomes by spinning and weaving silk, linen, and especially cotton in their own cottages.

There is much to learn here — about the quilted titanium fabricated for Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, for example, or about how Antonio Stradivari ran his violin workshop, or how the inventor of a mechanical flute player designed the first automated machines for weaving silk.

Others were brought to weave silk in Lyon, eventually the centre of European silk manufacture.

Other spiders instead weave silk snares, or webs, to capture prey.

Others weave silk drawn from the spinnerets of their larvae to hold the walls in place".

"A lot of it looks quite heavy but everything is extremely light — even this silver woven silk jacket.

The results are beautiful little things: ties made from traditional English lace and high-quality woven silk.

This woven silk summer gown of noble provenance represents Ma's attitude toward the "excess" found in fashion today.

Besides the kangaroo-skin oddity, he owns cards made of Irish peat, celluloid, aluminum, leather, macerated money and woven silk.

MIDWAY through "The Legacy of Genghis Khan" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, there are a few tent hangings, woven silk and gold.