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• Silk in the Indian subcontinent — Silk in India as elsewhere, is an item of luxury.For more than four thousand years, this cloth produced from the cocoons of caterpillers, has been associated with crowned heads and riches throughout the different ages. As a designer once said… …   Wikipedia

• Silk/Satin fetishism — is a sexual fetish relating to garments or other articles made of silk or satin fabric. It is usually directed towards people wearing silk or satin, but it can also be directed towards the garments themselves.Fetishists are attracted to silk and… …   Wikipedia

• Silk Hope, North Carolina — Silk Hope, in Chatham County, North Carolina, USA, is a farm community centered on a community school, a volunteer fire department, several country churches, and many historical farmsteads. It is evolving into the country home of many who work in …   Wikipedia

• Silk — This article is about a natural fiber and the textile woven from it. For other uses, see Silk (disambiguation). Four of the most important domesticated silk worms, together with their adult moth forms, Meyers Konversations Lexikon (1885 1892)… …   Wikipedia

• Silk Road — The Silk Road, or Silk Routes, are an extensive interconnected network of trade routes across the Asian continent connecting East, South, and Western Asia with the Mediterranean world, including North Africa and Europe. The so called Silk Routes… …   Wikipedia

• Silk Road transmission of Buddhism — [ Central Asian and East Asian Buddhist monks, Bezeklik, Eastern Tarim Basin, China, 9th 10th century.] The Silk Road transmission of Buddhism to China started in the 1st century CE with a semi legendary or quasi historical account of an embassy… …   Wikipedia

• Silk Purse — Infobox Album | Name = Silk Purse Type = Album Artist = Linda Ronstadt Released = March 1970 Genre = Rock/Country Length = 28:26 Label = Capitol Producer = Elliot F. Mazer Reviews = * Allmusic Rating|3.5|5… …   Wikipedia

• Silk Hosiery — Infobox Film name = Silk Hosiery image size = caption = director = Fred Niblo producer = Thomas H. Ince writer = Frank Mitchell Dazey narrator = starring = Enid Bennett Geoffrey Webb music = cinematography = George Barnes editing = Charles H.… …   Wikipedia

• Silk gown — Stuff Stuff, n. [OF. estoffe, F. [ e]toffe; of uncertain origin, perhaps of Teutonic origin and akin to E. stop, v.t. Cf. {Stuff}, v. t.] 1. Material which is to be worked up in any process of manufacture. [1913 Webster] For the stuff they had… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Silk Stocking Sal — Infobox Film name = Silk Stocking Sal image size = caption = director = Tod Browning producer = writer = Richard Schayer narrator = starring = Evelyn Brent Robert Ellis music = cinematography = Silvano Balboni editing = distributor = released =… …   Wikipedia