enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. William Skinner and Sons - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Skinner_and_Sons

   William Skinner & Sons, generally sold under the names Skinner's Satin, Skinner's Silk, and Skinner Fabrics, was an American textile manufacturer specializing in silk products, specifically woven satins with mills in Holyoke, main sales offices in New York, and a series of nationwide satellite offices in Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Minneapolis, Rochester ...

3. Wardrobe of Mary, Queen of Scots - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardrobe_of_Mary,_Queen_of...

   She asked James Beaton, Archbishop of Glasgow, to buy dress materials in Rouen for her, and forward them to the French ambassador Michel de Castelnau. [203] Mary was able to buy silk fabrics for her clothes in France, using 1039 crowns from her French income. [204]

4. Tsumugi (cloth) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsumugi_(cloth)

   An unlined (hitoe) kimono made from tsumugi, showing soft drape.Tsumugi (紬) is a traditional slub-woven silk fabric from Japan.It is a tabby weave material woven from yarn produced using silk noil, short-staple silk fibre (as opposed to material produced using longer, filament yarn silk fibres).

5. Bombazine - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombazine

   Bombazine, or bombasine, is a fabric originally made of silk or silk and wool, and now also made of cotton and wool or of wool alone. Quality bombazine has a silk warp and a worsted weft. It is twilled or corded and used for dress-material, and was commonly used for dresses, skirts, and jackets. It was a heavy and dense fabric, with a fine ...

6. Silk - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk

   The production of silk originated in China in the Neolithic period, although it would eventually reach other places of the world (Yangshao culture, 4th millennium BC). Silk production remained confined to China until the Silk Road opened at some point during the latter part of the 1st millennium BC, though China maintained its virtual monopoly over silk production for another thousand years.

7. Byzantine silk - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_silk

   Imports of raw silk, silk yarn, and finished fabrics are all recorded, but the techniques of producing these textiles from the silkworm Bombyx mori remained a closely guarded secret of the Chinese until the Emperor of the East Justinian I (482–565) arranged to have silkworm eggs smuggled out of Central Asia in 553-54, [3] setting the stage ...