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2 unusual facts about Silk


German Quarter

By 1672, it had three Lutheran and two Calvinist churches and numerous factories, like Moscow's first Silk Manufactory, owned by A.Paulsen.

Knowsley North by-election, 1986

The constituency's Labour Member of Parliament (MP), Robert Kilroy-Silk (born 19 May 1942) resigned his seat to pursue a media career.


Academic regalia of Harvard University

All graduates' hoods are black lined with crimson silk, and are cut in the Edinburgh simple shape.

Aga Khan Music Initiative in Central Asia

In 2003 AKMICA presented Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble in a nine-day concert tour of Central Asia featuring concerts and workshops in Bishkek, Almaty, and Dushanbe.

Algarrobo, Spain

The entry of the Arabs in the Iberian Peninsula entailed a resurgence when Berbers from Algiers founded the town of Algarrobo more to the interior and introduced crops such as almonds and raisins and small industries of silk.

An Lushan

It was said that An Lushan knew six non-Han Chinese languages, and, after he grew older, served as an interpreter in one of the military markets, which were set up by the Chinese government largely to obtain horses in exchange for silk through foreign trade.

Arab immigration to the United States

By 1924 there were 25 Syrian owned and operated silk factories in Paterson and West Hoboken, New Jersey alone.

Art silk

In 1931, Henry Ford hired chemists Robert Boyer and Frank Calvert to produce artificial silk made with soybean fibers.

Ashokan Edicts in Delhi

Silk cotton from the Silk cotton tree, the simal, was gathered in large quantities to surround the pillar before it was lowered horizontally to the ground.

Auburn Button Works and Logan Silk Mills

Logan Silk Mills was famous for providing the silk for the gown of the First Lady Caroline Harrison wore when her husband, Benjamin Harrison, was inaugurated the 23rd President of the United States in 1889.

Ba Ban Chinese Music Society of New York

The ensemble performs on "silk and bamboo" (sizhu) instruments—a classical instrumental grouping dating from the Qing Dynasty (1636-1911) that includes various dizi (bamboo flutes), sheng (mouth organ), pipa (lute), zhongruan (alto lute), guzheng (zither), huqin (fiddles), and yangqin (hammered dulcimer).

Banarasi saris

The sari making is more of a cottage industry for about 12 lakh people associated directly or indirectly with the handloom silk industry of the region around Varanasi encompassing Gorakhpur, Chandauli, Bhadohi, Jaunpur and Azamgarh districts.

Bhutanese art

Each region has its specialties: raw silk comes from eastern Bhutan, brocade from Lhuntshi (Kurtoe), woolen goods from Bumthang, bamboo wares from Kheng, woodwork from Tashi Yangtse, gold and silver work from Thimphu, and yak-hair products from the north or the Black Mountains.

Binibining Pilipinas 2005

Gionna Cabrera, though unplaced in Miss Universe 2005, managed to win two awards, Miss Photogenic (the first of a three-peat for the country) and the Thai Airways Silk Award.

Black tie

Emily Post, a resident of Tuxedo Park, New York, stated in 1909 that "Tuxedos can have lapels or be shawl-shaped, in either case they are to have facings of silk, satin or grosgrain." and later republished this statement in her 1922 book "Etiquette", adding that only single-breasted jackets are appropriately called "Tuxedos".

Buddhism in Khotan

Local legend suggests that one of Ashoka's sons founded the Central Asian city of Khotan, once the capital of a prominent Buddhist kingdom alongside the famous Silk Road.

Dirty Picture: Silk Sakkath Maga

Dirty Picture: Silk Sakkath Hot is a 2013 biographical drama film in the Kannada language written and directed by Trishul.

Dolores Dembus Bittleman

Bittleman's work includes fiber and silk tapestries that have featured in exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the Lausanne International Tapestry Biennial and the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, New York.

Fuse One

The albums Fuse One and Silk were produced by Creed Taylor.

Her Highness and Silk

In the story Her Highness and Silk join forces with long time Marvel Family foe Aunt Minerva, another old criminal lady, and attempt to use Uncle Dudley as a cover to steal money from the circus.

Hilaire de Chardonnet

He was the first one to patent the artificial silk but Georges Audemars invented a variety called Rayon in 1855.

Hor, Tibet

Described by Nick Middleton in the 'Navel of the Universe' section of his book Extremes along the Silk Road (Murray Books, 1905).

Hōtō

Sericulture had turned lands traditionally reserved for rice crops into silk farms, and flour products like hōtō were invented as a means to counter food shortages which arose from this change in agriculture.

Isabella Stewart Gardner

In the Titian Room, Titian's magnificent painting of Europa (1561–1562) hangs above a piece of pale green silk, which had been cut from one of Isabella Stewart Gardner's gowns designed by Charles Frederick Worth.

Joanna Troutman

She created the Troutman flag which had a five-pointed blue star and the words "Liberty or Death" on a white silk field.

Kimura-gumo

It fixes its eggs on the surface of its burrow with silk so that they are well protected.

Lahore Zoo

Bombax malabaricum- locally termed Sunbal or Silk Cotton Tree - native to Himalayas

Mary Danforth Ryle

Mary Danforth married William Ryle of Macclesfield, Cheshire, England, reputed to be the largest and wealthiest silk importer in the United States.

Michele Pantaleone

According to his version published in "Mafia e politica 1943-1962" a US Army airplane had flown over Villalba on the day of the invasion and dropped a yellow silk foulard marked with a black L (indicating Luciano).

Nalli Kuppuswami Chetti

Now a Member of the Planning Board of the Tamil University, Thanjavur, he has been a Member of the Senate, Bharathiar University, Member, Central Silk Board and Member, South Zone Cultural Centre, Chennai and Patron of The Madras Progress Union Higher Secondary School.

Pál Csernai

Known for wearing his trade mark silk scarf, he is considered to be the inventor of the so-called "Pal system", a combination of the man-to-man and the zone defenses.

Palazzo Annoni

The construction of the building began in 1631 on a design by architect Francesco Maria Richini for the rich silk merchant Paolo Annoni.

Patricia Montandon

In 1987, Montandon designed The Banner of Hope, a mile-long, red-silk memorial inscribed with the names and ages of children killed in war, which was first presented in the Kremlin at an International Women's Congress.

Patti D'Arbanville

D'Arbanville acted in her first film in 1960 at age 8; a New York University student film about a girl and her cat, titled Tuesday and Blue Silk.

R. C. Gorman

His famous friends and collectors of his work included Elizabeth Taylor, Danny DeVito, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Barry Goldwater, Gregory Peck, Erma Bombeck, Lee Marvin, Jackie Onassis and fellow artist Andy Warhol, who silk-screened a portrait of Gorman that hung in a hall of his home surrounded by photos of Gorman's celebrity and other personal friends.

Rahon

After that period, Rahon began a gradual decline due to epidemics, attacks from foreign invaders, and a reduction in merchant activity when the silk route began to bypass Rahon in favor of Kabul.

Sampot

It has been documented that people from Takéo Province have woven silk since the Funan era and records, bas-relief and Zhou Daguan's report have shown that looms were used to weave sampots since ancient times.

Sarjapura

Sarjapur is fast-developing part of Bangalore with good road connectivity to key IT cluster areas like Whitefield (15 km), Electronic City (19 km), Outer Ring Road (16 km), Marathahalli, Silk Board & Koramangala etc.

Silk Screen Asian American Film Festival

The Silk Screen Asian American Film Festival is a week long film festival founded in 2006 by filmmaker and artist Harish Saluja and held every May during Asian American Heritage Month in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to show mostly recent films and music by artists with Asian ethnic origins, such as from Japan, China, Taiwan, India, Indonesia, Korea, and the Philippines.

Silk Stocking District

Upper East Side, New York City, also known as the Silk Stocking District

Silk Street

The Silk Street is located at Yonganli, just west of the China World Trade Centre and is accessible by subway (line 1) and bus.

Silk–Miller police murders

Victorian Police Minister Andre Haermeyer announced an A$500,000 reward for information on the murders, and later said he would consider increasing the reward.

SW Holdings

One of Silk Way Bank's owners is Arzu Aliyeva, the daughter of President Ilham Aliyev and First Lady Mehriban Aliyeva.

Tanaka Isson

In 1958, at the age of 50, he decided to relocate to Amami Ōshima, where he found employment at a silk factory, earning just enough for a frugal life.

Thai silk

Khorat is the center of the silk industry in Thailand and a steady supplier of rose Thai silk for many generations.

They Just Had to Get Married

The screenplay was written by Gladys Lehman, H.M. Walker, and an uncredited Preston Sturges, based on the Broadway play A Pair of Silk Stockings (1914) by Cyril Harcourt.

Tomioka silk mill

In 1870, Paul Brunat, who worked in a French trading company in Yokohama, researched suitable locations for a silk mill in the Kanto region and selected the site in Tomioka City from among the candidates.

Traditional crafts of Assam

Apart from Sualkuchi / Xualkuchi, the centre for the traditional silk industry, in almost every parts of the Brahmaputra Valley, rural households produce silk and silk garments with excellent embroidery designs.

Uloborus plumipes

The fine fibres produced are combined by comblike bristles on the hind legs into slender silk threads with a fuzzy texture that are able to trap prey without the use of glue.

Viscose

French scientist and industrialist Hilaire de Chardonnet (1838–1924)— who invented the first artificial textile fiber, artificial silk—created viscose.

William Courten

The refugees at first set up a manufactory of French hoods in Abchurch Lane, London, but afterwards removed to Pudding Lane, where they traded in silk and linen.

William Ryle

William Ryle later journeyed to the United States where in Paterson, New Jersey and in New York City, he owned and operated the largest silk importing firm in the United States.


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