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Characteristics of the fibres – different fibre types have different properties, affecting their care and conservation; for instance, cotton and linen, both fibre crops, are stronger when wet than when dry, and may be able to withstand more mechanical stress when cleaning than something like silk. Wool can absorb large amounts of water, but ...
A Parisian Flower Market by Victor Gabriel Gilbert A wedding bouquet of cymbidium arranged by a florist. Floristry is the production, commerce, and trade in flowers.It encompasses flower care and handling, floral design and arrangement, merchandising, production, display and flower delivery.
The result is extremely light-weight despite the silk comforter's thickness. Silk comforters provide excellent insulating properties similar to down, but tend to be less bulky than down duvets. Silk is a breathable fabric, making silk comforters comfortable in a wide temperature range. Thin silk comforters are used even in the summer.
Artificial fibres can be made by extruding a polymer, through a spinneret (polymers) into a medium where it hardens. Wet spinning (rayon) uses a coagulating medium. In dry spinning (acetate and triacetate), the polymer is contained in a solvent that evaporates in the heated exit chamber.
Flowers were considered fashionable in this period. Large mass flowers were placed tightly into containers to create compact arrangements that were asymmetrical and stacked tightly. There was no definite style, but many different flowers and colours made the arrangement look almost unplanned.
The cropped skirt-suits in richly embroidered tweeds, embellished hem and shoulder lines, soft silk shirt dresses and capes with pussy-bow fastening offered a fresh take on the French house’s ...
Sericulture, or silk farming, is the cultivation of silkworms to produce silk. Although there are several commercial species of silkworms, the caterpillar of the domestic silkmoth is the most widely used and intensively studied silkworm.
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