The Hata are said to have been adept at financial matters, and to have introduced silk raising and weaving to Japan.

Tom likes to knit.

Have you finished knitting that sweater?

This looks like silk.

And then we have silk, Thai silk.

So in the studio, rather than drawing, we began to learn how to knit.

So this material is silk.

Cheryl Hayashi The magnificence of spider silk

This feels like silk.

This silk feels smooth.

Her hair feels like silk.

Where can I buy silk?

She carried a silk purse.

Tom wears silk neckties.

China s Silk Road Revival

Each of these silk fibers exits from the spigot, and if you were to trace the fiber back into the spider, what you would find is that each spigot connects to its own individual silk gland. A silk gland kind of looks like a sac with a lot of silk proteins stuck inside.

The concept was to really knit this rope together and develop this new soft infrastructure for the oysters to grow on.

Silkworms spin cocoons.

She is always clothed in silk.

She was in a silk dress.

Tom has a silk scarf.

Tom has a silk scarf.

Mary wore a silk blouse.

I'll try to spin a story about energy, and oil's a convenient starting place.

And so we marvel at silk worms the silk worm you see here spinning its fiber.

The dress does not make the fair.

The beard does not make the philosopher.

My dream is to cross the Silk Road on a camel.

This beautiful dress is made of silk.

Japan used to trade silk in large quantities.

We have blouses of cotton or silk.

Tom wore a silk shirt.

But silk is versatile and it goes beyond optics.

So, this was the terminal point for silk route.

It's short. And on the bottom, this is the repeat sequence for the egg case, or tubuliform silk protein, for the exact same spider. And you can see how dramatically different these silk proteins are so this is sort of the beauty of the diversification of the spider silk gene family.

How much is a meter of this red silk?

How much does a meter of that red silk cost?

Fiorenzo Omenetto Silk, the ancient material of the future

The most notable component of this strategy is the Silk Road economic belt, which is to run along the ancient Central Asian Silk Road and the modern maritime Silk Road an initiative that Xi promoted heavily at the recent meeting in Beijing.

It was one of the earliest departure points on the Marine Silk Road.

I gave my father a silk tie.

Their main exports are textiles, especially silk and cotton.

You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

So there's versatility, as you see, in the material formats, that you can do with silk.

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