One cover shows the Twentieth Colored Infantry of Eighteen Sixty-Four receiving a silk banner in New York City.

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Both were interested in the idea of making a textile piece from silk of the golden orb spider.

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The white silk shirt and the blue and lilac tie felt cool and smooth under his fingers.

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With silkscreen printing, a stencil is attached to a fine piece of stretched silk or nylon cloth.

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Fortunato was beautiful in his silk suit made of many colors: yellow, green, purple and red.

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She looked down to see that her hand lay upon a pile of silk stockings.

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The congressman charged that President Van Buren wore silk clothing, and even put French perfume on his body to make him smell sweet as a flower.

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In an empty corner, she replaced her cotton stockings for the new silk ones.

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Paul bought two suits, several white silk shirts, some silk ties of different colors.

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Yarn can be made from natural materials such as cotton, linen,silk and wool.

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Each spider produced a line of silk about three hundred fifty meters long.

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It took more than a million of them to produce that much silk.

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Mister Peers had researched stories of spider silk being used by human weavers.

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The tapestry was woven with silk provided by the golden orb spider.

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In fact,their silk is even lighter and softer than silk from silkworms.

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How good was the touch of the silk on her skin!

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He exchanged his silk hat for the kind worn by farmers.

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It is a beautiful wall covering made of shiny,bright golden silk.

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He came out the bathroom, wearing the red silk bathrobe.

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These tapestries are made of the materials silk and wool.

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But getting silk from a spider might seem more difficult.

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She moved her toes around in the silk stockings.

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People usually get their silk supply from worms.

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But spiders make silk,too.

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Premier Wen stressed China's role as "trusted brothers" of the Arab people and noted the history of trade between the nations dates back to the Silk Road.

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