As a result, the silks have now achieved recognition from the style-conscious shoppers of Singapore.
They weave the most desired silks for brides and formal dresses for Indian women.
Rubin is a mega-millionaire who made his money trading Chinese silks and medical devices.
At Christian Dior, vivid kanjipuram silks feature extensively in John Galliano's designs this season.
The 69 rooms at this property are individually decorated with wood furniture and silks.
Mangaldas Market, traditionally home to traders from Gujarat, is a great place to browse for Indian textiles and silks.
They carried silks and spices and spread an infinity of cultural influences during these colossal journeys.
Each piece has been painstakingly created using luxurious silks and velvets, with details such as sparkling Swarovski crystals.
But many fly by the seat of their pants, choosing an interesting looking horse or colorful jockey silks.
The trade worked both ways, with Venetians exporting jewels, books, silks and ingenious mechanical tools to the East.
Now the silks of Baan Borang are no longer the somewhat old-fashioned bright colors and designs of the area.
"A north London firm of legal aid solicitors have outwitted the expensive silks of the Home Office, " he said.
On return the lucre would pay for goods destined for Lisbon and silks for the next voyage to Nagasaki.
"The audiences were enthralled by it -- the silks, the golds, the sheer size of the event, " said McDonald.
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European countries came to China to buy its tea, silks and spices and offered European industrial goods in exchange.
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Some pieces are made by the same mills that supply Scalamandr Silks, Inc.
The colors of the winning owner's silks are painted on the jockey and horse weather vane atop the infield cupola.
Thing is, this season is sure to be a hit there as well even without searing-red silks and kimono-like blouses.
Their massive, India-built carracks, riding monsoon winds from the Spice Islands, would unload upriver at Canton and take on Chinese silks and porcelain.
In turn, the extraordinary detail of the anonymous Shirley portraits at the British Museum illustrates the superb quality and imaginative designs of the best Iranian silks.
Now Vatsaloo, 52, is the proprietor of a small gallery outside Singapore's Little India, Isan, where he sells the shimmering silks of Baan Borang as shawls, table runners, slipcovers and purses.
The Asian aesthetic is also referenced through proportions and scale, the naturalness of materials, meticulous attention to detail, decorative fabrics, silks, artwork and a Chinese granite hearth quarried from the Yangtze River.
With the profits from the sale of the Turkish goods, Mazzei opened a shop specializing in wines, silks, olive oils, anchovies, parmesan cheese and other Italian products that were almost impossible to buy in London.
But where Gurung was about modern take-charge urban warriors, Adam Lippes of Adam showed a crowd-pleasing delicately feminine collection of light airy dresses in sheer pastel fabrics or in soft silks in shades of pink or ivory.
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Ever the iconoclast, Ms. Philo deconstructed the sugary and shimmery sweetness of her chiffons and silks with a pair of the most ridiculed shoes in fashion, lined with the most counterintuitive fabric for a summer's day: mink.
Even the Bar Council, which represents barristers, believes that the current secret method of appointment of silks is unsustainable and that in future they should be selected by a small panel chaired by a retired High Court judge.
Jockeys, still in their silks, also had to leave their belongings behind in the hasty exit and many relied on the generosity of the residents of Liverpool who rallied round and provided food and shelter for those stranded.
From the 1560s until 1815, a fleet of Spanish galleons made an annual epic voyage from the Mexican port of Acapulco to Manila in the Philippines, carrying silver and supplies and returning with Chinese silks and porcelain that were snapped up by the wealthy in colonial Mexico and Peru.
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