Parachutes are usually made out of light, strong cloth, originally silk, now most commonly nylon.

And then we have silk, Thai silk.

And the most studied silk line of them all major ampullate silk.

The dress is of silk.

The gown is made of silk.

Silk is expensive.

Silk, gray, those beautiful buttons.

Tom bought a silk rug.

There are many kinds of spider silk.

So this material is silk.

We have blouses of cotton or silk.

Tom has a silk scarf.

Tom wore a silk shirt.

Where can I buy silk?

She became the new poster girl Sunsilk in 2011, starring in the commercial Silk Pro Natural.

Each of these silk fibers exits from the spigot, and if you were to trace the fiber back into the spider, what you would find is that each spigot connects to its own individual silk gland. A silk gland kind of looks like a sac with a lot of silk proteins stuck inside.

Spider silk is almost entirely protein.

Think of hunting with silly string.

I sewed the dress with silk thread.

I gave my father a silk tie.

Most spiders use copious amounts of silk, and silk is essential to their survival and reproduction.

Pyriform silk glands make the attachment cement that's the silk that's used to adhere silk lines to a substrate.

What silk biologists do is we try to relate these sequences, these amino acid sequences, to the mechanical properties of the silk fibers.

How does an individual spider make so many kinds of silk?

But what, exactly, is spider silk?

So we've made a silk card with penicillin in it.

Now I'm going to mark on the toughness values for nylon fiber, bombyx or domesticated silkworm silk wool, Kevlar, and carbon fibers.

In an instant, she realized this caterpillar larva was the source of the silk.

Or if you're fashion forward, some silk LED tattoos.

So you have a clock, you have protein, and now a silk cup like this can be thrown away without guilt unlike the polystyrene cups that unfortunately fill our landfills everyday.

Cheryl Hayashi The magnificence of spider silk

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Japan used to trade silk in large quantities.

They also construct a bolas made of a single thread, tipped with a large ball of very wet sticky silk.

Inside each spider, there are hundreds of silk glands, sometimes thousands.

So silk comes out of the spinnerets, and for those of us spider silk biologists, this is what we call the business end of the spider.

So, this was the terminal point for silk route.

To borrow from the writings of a spider named Charlotte, silk is terrific.

It's short. And on the bottom, this is the repeat sequence for the egg case, or tubuliform silk protein, for the exact same spider. And you can see how dramatically different these silk proteins are so this is sort of the beauty of the diversification of the spider silk gene family.

I love when I'm in the laboratory, a new spider silk sequence comes in.

The return of control over Shandong fell into the Warlord era of the Republic of China.

So it's kind of different from what we're used to thinking about silk.

One can alter the pitch of a string by manipulating or moving the bridge.

The city became a major staging point on the northern Silk Road.

Silk road connotes independence and mutual trust.