Mr. Lautenberg's father, Sam, worked in silk mills, sold coal, farmed and once ran a tavern.
There's speculation that the amino acids in silk lend proteins to the skin and hair.
Shares in silk product manufacturer Zhejiang Jiaxin Silk edged up 0.3% to 22.07 yuan on their trading debut.
Tetracycline stored at body temperature lost 80% of its potency after four weeks in ordinary solution, but lost none when stored in silk films.
Accused of heresy by the Inquisition while visiting the Royal Court in Madrid, the machine, fashionably dressed in silk pantaloons, spent several months in a Spanish prison.
Wright's sampler globe delineates the continents, countries and oceans in ink, but the equator and arctic circles are stitched in white silk and the Tropics in red silk.
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His closing look, an ivory colored gown in silk and tulle with delicate beadwork topped off by a luscious fur wrap and hat had me thinking of fantastical scenes in a cold climate.
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And examples of ancient silk garments, accessories and textiles are being shown outside China for the first time as Nottingham Castle hosts the Living in Silk exhibition as part of the East Midlands' Cultural Olympiad, the council said.
It's a model that scientists have tried with spider silk before, but because the proteins in spider silk are so large, it takes some pretty wacky-sounding techniques to replicate them (like getting it from the milk of transgenic goats).
On the other side of the spectrum were the women in white and ivory like Kerry Washington in a dress with a structured bodice from Rodarte, Naomi Watts in a lace and silk tulle frock from Marchesa and Sofia Vergara in a ruched and draped silk satin dress by Donna Karan.
There is great interest, in biotechnological circles, in using silk more extensively as an industrial material.
They will have plenty to swoon over here: breezy ankle length dresses in printed silk, tweed shorts-suits and wool cloaks.
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Did you expect Brando Nadal, plopping into a chair in a silk muumuu at this hotel restaurant on Central Park South?
But the atmospheric old neighbourhood with its silver shops and old ladies wrapped up in Thai silk does impart a time-warp feeling.
The walls are covered in raw silk, which matches the cream curtains.
Every prayer that a Muslim performs is offered in the direction of the mysterious building, draped in black silk, forever surrounded by pilgrims.
Dim sum was originally a snack that accompanied the yum cha tradition of tea drinking, which had its roots in the Silk Route.
Lucky for you Ermenegildo Zegna came out with several of them this season in a silk-cotton blend, giving them that relaxed yet still sharp look.
Before the dance, when I was all dolled up in my silk skirt, and I pushed my hands along them and put my cheek against the dark cotton, just for a second.
When we enthusiastically agreed (after our heart rate dropped), he led us aside -- away from prying eyes -- and produced a pair devices, delicately wrapped in a silk handkerchief, from his suit's inside pocket.
The capitalist achievement does not typically consist in providing more silk stockings for queens but in bringing them within the reach of factory girls in return for steadily decreasing amounts of effort.
It was renamed Schuylkill Silk Manufacturing in 1914 when it expanded into silk lingerie.
More often than not I have seen these made up in old pieces of silk, usually bought in India, although they can also be done in modern textiles to great effect.
He began his collection, now housed in the Karakalpak Museum of Art in Nukus, near the ancient Silk Road, in the late 1960s.
The residences that line her street, where fellow artists Gilbert and George also live, were built in 1729 for the Huguenot silk weavers who had settled in London and as such are Grade II listed and protected.
He was now a rich man, in an Italian silk suit and with solid gold bracelets on his wrists.
Liu Qiang's ashes lie in a cremation box on the altar, wrapped in a white silk scarf, waiting for burial.
In an expensive silk shirt and dark trousers, the balding Mr Montesinos sat staring ahead for more than five hours.
She was kind of a welcome sight, jolly and bathed, done up like a tropical bird in a vivid silk wrap.
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