Erected in 1928, its interiors are opulent, with heavy silk curtains, porcelain antiques and dark-wood furniture.
It was a rare city that belonged to both ends of the Silk Road.
Ptolemy rightly identified the town as the gateway to Seres, the Land of Silk.
The interior is sumptuous in gold and there are cushioned booths curtained off with silk.
Leather jackets and silk cushions are sold next to rolls of block-printed fabric and beaded Maasai belts.
Few Chinese ventured westward along the Silk Road and those that did, like Zhang, had very different motives.
Mr. Lautenberg's father, Sam, worked in silk mills, sold coal, farmed and once ran a tavern.
The Stein room is where the collection's most prestigious silk paintings live, far from public gaze.
It was renamed Schuylkill Silk Manufacturing in 1914 when it expanded into silk lingerie.
Silk Road is only accessible through Tor, a service which allows users to browse anonymously online.
In 1997, a plane operated by wholly-owned subsidiary Silk Air crashed in Indonesia, killing everyone aboard.
There's speculation that the amino acids in silk lend proteins to the skin and hair.
This copy, printed on raw silk, is perhaps the only hand-colored copy in existence, Winterthur says.
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The silk gland of spiders and the milk gland of goats are almost identical.
Once perfected, the silk will be used for featherweight ballistic vests, medical sutures and artificial ligaments.
The Welsh government's own evidence to Silk calls for the devolution of powers over policing.
Soon after it was set up, it got into wool and (more profitably) silk.
Everything on the Xbox looks vivid in still form and moves as smooth as silk.
The scarves are cashmere and silk and printed with the indigenous cultures of Australia and Haiti.
We live in fast-changing times but we are, most of us, more Velcro than silk.
Mr Kilroy-Silk responded by wiping some of the manure over the man who had thrown it.
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Up close, it turned out to be a silk embroidery--containing, Jiang said, 2.5 million stitches.
The latter have cream-colored walls, wood floors, accents of leather and colored silk, and woodburning fires.
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The digital marketplace Silk Road currently operates a platform with a participant reputation system.
She carried a red silk hankie, because her nose still bled now and then.
He also answered questions on the NHS, youth unemployment and the Silk Commission's report.
It was possible for the trade routes like the Silk Road to hum with traffic.
It is in this context that the Silk Roads Project, initiated by UNESCO, assumes its significance.
Silk, however, may give Bezos an edge when to comes to selling everything else, too.
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Especially stunning was the black silk faille and ivory swansdown dress on Andreea Diaconu (above).
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