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Paduasoy or padesoy [1] (/ ˈ p æ dj u ə s ɔɪ /; French: peau de soie) is a luxurious strong corded or grosgrain silk textile that originated in Early Modern Europe. The term paduasoy first appeared in English in 1663. [2] Paduasoy silk was woven in a variation of the satin weave, with bindings arranged to create fine cross-ridges across ...
"CLOTH MAP COLLECTION (400 items). Maps printed or photoreproduced on various fibers such as silk and tissue, 1626–1987." Geography & Map Reading Room. Library of Congress. Washington, DC. Doll, John G. 2002. Cloth maps, charts and blood chits of World War II. Bennington, Vt: Merriam Press. World War II Historical Society monograph, 41. OCLC ...
In 1849, France's silk crop failed due to a unknown disease affecting the silkworms. [59] The disease remained pervasive, and soon spread to Italy, Spain, Syria, Turkey, and China. [60] In 1807, bacteriologist Agostino Bassi began a 25-year investigation into what caused the silkworm disease mal de segno (white muscardine
Google Maps' satellite view is a "top-down" or bird's-eye view; most of the high-resolution imagery of cities is aerial photography taken from aircraft flying at 800 to 1,500 feet (240 to 460 m), while most other imagery is from satellites. [5]
Louis-Marie Hilaire Bernigaud de Grange, Count (Comte) de Chardonnet (1 May 1839 – 11 March 1924) was a French engineer and industrialist from Besançon, and inventor of artificial silk. In the late 1870s, Chardonnet was working with Louis Pasteur on a remedy to the epidemic that was destroying French silkworms .
The Silk Road was an ancient network of trade routes that connected many communities of Eurasia by land and sea, stretching from the Mediterranean basin in the west to the Korean peninsula and the Japanese archipelago in the east.
Fabrics with defined enough ribs can be calendered with smooth rollers and produce a moire finish; however generally the rollers have ribs that correspond to the grain of the fabric. The moire effect may be obtained on silk, worsted, or cotton fabrics, though it is impossible to develop it on anything other than a grained or fine corded weave. [7]
Batavia, also known as Batavia silk and Levantine, [1] was initially a silk fabric used for dresses in 18th-century France. In the 19th century, the material was made using greige silk in the warp and schappe silk in the weft. The fabric was also known as "Levantine". Imitations of it were made in cotton. [2]