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It's essential, in order for consumers to embrace a fabric, that it look like wool, silk or another natural material, Mr. Kriemler says.
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Silk touches the lives of rural Chinese in more material ways, too, in the form of the silk clothes, quilts, umbrellas, fans and flowers that punctuate everyday life.
UNESCO: Culture
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There is great interest, in biotechnological circles, in using silk more extensively as an industrial material.
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They start with silkworm cocoons the raw material for almost all silk production.
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According to the Web site Ecouterre.com, the dress is made from what's sometimes known as ahimsa, or "peace silk" a material spun from cocoons without killing the worms inside.
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Production of the material includes several stages: silk floss is spun into yarn by hand, with patterns added by hand-tying bundles of yarn before dyeing the yarn with indigo, then the silk is woven using a back-tension loom.
UNESCO: Culture
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The Yuki-tsumugi technique is employed to produce pongee silk (also called raw silk) - a light and warm material with a characteristic stiffness and softness, traditionally used to make kimonos.
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This way of spinning silk is remarkably similar to that used by spiders, which pull the material from their bodies using their legs.
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These range from breathtaking and extensive walls of cascading silk, silhouetted and stiff beamlike pieces, bolts of fabric and lumps of crumpled material, all artfully maneuvered by puppeteers.
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