There, among the giant irokos, the sapeles and the silk-cotton trees of the forest, she tended the guavas, pawpaws and roseapples she had planted there.
Lucky for you Ermenegildo Zegna came out with several of them this season in a silk-cotton blend, giving them that relaxed yet still sharp look.
And understand that even a single wearing (or probably a lot of try-ons with your new sweater) means your natural-fiber clothes (wool, silk, cotton, cashmere, fur including blends) are no longer sterile when it comes to insects.
In addition to natural fibers like cotton, silk and wool, there are now a wide variety of synthetics on the shelves.
Nano-Tex, a leading company in the field, has developed processes that make traditional cotton and silk fabrics resistant to spills that would normally ruin clothing.
The techniques, symbolism and culture surrounding hand-dyed cotton and silk garments known as Indonesian Batik permeate the lives of Indonesians from beginning to end: infants are carried in batik slings decorated with symbols designed to bring the child luck, and the dead are shrouded in funerary batik.
The Australian "15 Milmil 15" wool feels like silk, breathes like Egyptian cotton and wears like iron.
Like artists of another era, he spends months on grand tours looking for unusual African cotton and Persian silk.
And as hair glides over silk (as opposed to creating friction with cotton), it is also less prone to forming knots and tangles.
There, she scooped up swatches of cotton, linen, denim and imitation silk--the real stuff is unkind to silkworms--and took them to Italian shoemakers.
Produced in cotton, rayon and parachute nylon, as well as silk, the scarves were intended to brighten up post-war wardrobes with bold colours and patterns.
Pound for pound stronger than steel, lighter than cotton, thin as a human hair, flexible as silk, transparent as air, these fibers, drawn from glass, may revolutionize communications.
Before the dance, when I was all dolled up in my silk skirt, and I pushed my hands along them and put my cheek against the dark cotton, just for a second.
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