thread silk
Americannoun
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And Cate Blanchett's custom black silk velvet gown with thread silk chiffon details was by Maison Margiela designer John Galliano, who is trying to restart his career.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 22, 2015
It was used by the dyers of the Cité as a way down to the river to wash their thread, silk, and materials.
From The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories by Honor? de Balzac
Gold thread, silver thread, silk thread, cunningly combined to the making of its dazzling pattern.
From The Portal of Dreams by Charles Neville Buck
It is of rich myrtle-green velvet, worked in gold thread, silk, and pearls, with plume-like flourishes that might well suggest the term "squirrels."
From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Edward Conybeare
Genuine Eytalian thread silk lining will come at four and a half more.”
From Mountain Blood A Novel by Joseph Hergesheimer
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