• We were able to generate a call for a General Assembly of the Silk Weavers of Varanasi.

    FORBES: Saving India's Silk Weavers

  • Perhaps for this reason, The Scream's influence on modern art has been considerable, as seen in Francis Bacon's Screaming Popes series, Picasso's Guernica and, of course, Andy Warhol's silk prints of Munch's work.

    BBC: Munch's The Scream... and the appeal of anguished art

  • In her workshop at the Limerick Craft Hub, she showed me how the technique just involves a strip of silk, some lengths of spun wool, some water and a couple of hand sanders.

    BBC: Ireland��s heart of gold and silver

  • The original documents were filmed by local television teams of nine countries in Central Asia as the expedition, organized within UNESCO's programme 'Integral Study of the Silk Roads: Route of Dialogue' retraced the 2, 000-year-old 20, 000 km silk and spices route linking East and West and thus ideas, religions, people, products and cultures in both directions.

    UNESCO: Culture

  • The silk gland of spiders and the milk gland of goats are almost identical.

    FORBES: Charlotte's Goat

  • Plans for a memorial have a particular resonance for Paul Silk, the chair of the Silk Commission on devolution in Wales.

    BBC: World War I centenary: Wales Flanders memorial campaign

  • Sericulture and silk craftsmanship of China, based in Zhejiang and Jiangsu Provinces near Shanghai and Chengdu in Sichuan Province, have an ancient history.

    UNESCO: Culture

  • Were silk handkerchiefs of 1752 big enough for such a kite?

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • 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

  • Yet his eclectic career encompassed much more, including a silk screen of the arrest of Mick Jagger, the cover of The Beatles' so-called White Album (1968) and a computer he designed himself.

    BBC: Matisse and Turner in new Tate shows

  • 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.

    BBC: Olympic torch relay to stop in Nottingham

  • Miller had made a series of silk dresses with a print made out of a design of theater tickets.

    NPR: Nicole Miller's Runway to Success

  • On the other hand, it is this resolute over-egging of the pudding that gives "The House of Silk" its charm: a kind of constant creative exuberance, born of a suspicion that unless every single element of the Holmes legend can be brought to the feast, the story is bound to fall flat.

    WSJ: Book Review: The House of Silk

  • If hundreds of files are required to build a web page across dozens of domains, Silk can request all of this content simultaneously with EC2, without overwhelming the mobile device processor or impacting battery life.

    ENGADGET: Amazon Silk browser spins a faster mobile web, courtesy of cloud servers (video)

  • Every April, female silkworm farmers adorn themselves with colourful flowers made of silk or paper and make harvest offerings as part of the Silkworm Flower festival.

    UNESCO: Culture

  • The name "Silk" is inspired by the idea that a thread of silk is an invisible yet incredibly strong connection between two different things.

    ENGADGET: Amazon Silk browser spins a faster mobile web, courtesy of cloud servers (video)

  • If you are have read the Silk report and are hungry for more, the London equivalent of Silk was published yesterday.

    BBC: Labour and Plaid Cymru stage Westminster love-in

  • Nexia became known as the spider-silk company, after it created transgenic goats capable of producing spider silk (which is, in fact, a form of protein) in their milk.

    ECONOMIST: REPORTS

  • Francis also raised traditional eyebrows when he refused the golden pectoral cross offered to him right after his election by Monsignor Guido Marini, the Vatican's liturgy guru who under Benedict became the symbol of Benedict's effort to restore the Gregorian chant and heavy silk brocaded vestments of the pre-Vatican II liturgy to papal Masses.

    NPR: Pope's Foot-Wash A Final Straw For Traditionalists

  • Aluminum foil as wrinkle remover: To get wrinkles out of silk, wool, and rayon clothes that can't take direct heat, place a piece of foil on your ironing board, then lay the garment flat over it.

    CNN: New uses for Thanksgiving items

  • "I love making the bodies of the hat out of the silk dupioni, but then when it gets to trimming the hat, and I can actually take a strip of fabric and weave it, wind it and swirl it up with silk organza into a rose curl or a Marguerite, and I feel like a sculptor, " Steinmann said.

    CNN: Crowning glory: The art of Kentucky Derby hats

  • 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.

    WSJ: A Puppeteer's 'Rite' of Passage | Basil Twist | By Robert Greskovic

  • Plaid Cymru have made the lack of a UK government response to the first Silk report the focus of their opposition to the Queen's Speech and say they will push their amendment to a vote tonight in a device designed to highlight Labour divisions over the assembly's powers.

    BBC: Welsh Questions, TV's Michael Fabricant and sofabeds

  • Mr Thubron spent eight months travelling the 11, 300 kilometres (7, 000 miles) of the old Silk Road from Xian in the heart of China to Antioch (Antakya) in Turkey and, although he scrupulously admits in a note that his trip was broken by fighting in northern Afghanistan and that he was obliged to continue the following year, this interruption does not disrupt the flow of his narrative.

    ECONOMIST: Travel writing

  • Ptolemy rightly identified the town as the gateway to Seres, the Land of Silk.

    BBC: Following the Silk Road to the end of China

  • To ensure the continuation of Silk Road Online Platform, additional funding is being sought.

    UNESCO: CULTURE

  • The full skirt was framed by a band of silk duchess satin and a subtle train.

    FORBES: British Royal Zara Phillips Weds Rugby Star

  • These strands of silk, just 3 microns wide, are three times as tough as DuPont's bulletproof Kevlar.

    FORBES: Charlotte's Goat

  • Mazzei arrived with a plan to cultivate European grapes, olive trees and the egg of silk worms to make silk.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

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