silk

The yellow silk Carolina Herrera dress Hudson wore near the end of the film also became a much talked-about piece of modern cinema fashion.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

Sorcinelli, aided by 11 seamstresses, displayed the green silk forming the basis of Leo's vestment for Rimini, rolling out the sumptuous fabric onto a long table.

From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026

In the case of Bessette’s wedding attire, one of Mance’s assistants found a swatch of fabric from her Narciso Rodriguez silk slip gown, which they were able to remake using the exact material.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

How could a civilization boasting gold and bronze masterpieces, jadeworking and silk production seemingly disappear overnight, leaving no written record or human remains?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026

Even women like Lisa, women lucky enough to marry profitable silk merchants, labor through astonishingly rigid lives.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day

Some of the lusher scraps—velvets, taffetas, silks, lace—I turned into sumptuous ballgowns for my sister’s proto-Barbie doll.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2025

“This whole place was jam-packed with all the silks from the ’60s, ’70s, ’80s, ’90s,” Lim says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2025

Hours were marked by peals of screams following every uncovered worm wriggling in the corn silks, and each of us proudly showing off our inky fingertips from pressing out purple hull peas from their pods.

From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2025

Fuller’s signature creation might be the serpentine dance, which combined flowing choreography borrowed from “skirt dancing” with silks and lighting to create the impression of waves and whirling.

From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2024

Longshoremen of the Sea-Guild of Neshum came aboard to unload the cargo—gold, silver, jewelry, fine silks and Southern tapestries, such precious stuff as the lords of Osskil hoard—and the freemen of the crew were dismissed.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin