And then we have silk, Thai silk.

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

Cheryl Hayashi The magnificence of spider silk

So, this was the terminal point for silk route.

We lost a tech giant today.

Silk is expensive.

Giant

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

So this material is silk.

Silk road connotes independence and mutual trust.

Minor ampullate silk is used in web construction.

But silk is versatile and it goes beyond optics.

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

The dress is of silk.

The gown is made of silk.

Where can I buy silk?

On giant grass.

Anatotitan giant duck.

Thirty three go on the Silk Road to China, South Asia and Southeast Asia.

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

More pipelines means more silk roads, instead of the Great Game.

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

Silk, gray, those beautiful buttons.

Tom bought a silk rug.

A giant battery could.

This is the Silk Road connecting the Chinese Empire and the Roman Empire.

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

There are many kinds of spider silk.

We have blouses of cotton or silk.

Tom has a silk scarf.

Tom wore a silk shirt.

Though the originating source seems sufficiently reliable, silk unfortunately degrades very rapidly and we cannot double check for accuracy whether it was actually cultivated silk (which would almost certainly have come from China) that was discovered or a type of wild silk, which might have come from the Mediterranean region or the Middle East.

This looks like a giant hamburger.

I live in a giant bucket.

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.

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.

If we think, for example, of Louis Pasteur, who in the 1860s was asked to study the diseases of silk worms for the silk industry, and his discoveries were really the beginning of the germ theory of disease.

Spider silk is almost entirely protein.

Think of hunting with silly string.

Fiorenzo Omenetto Silk, the ancient material of the future

I sewed the dress with silk thread.

I gave my father a silk tie.

Japan used to trade silk in large quantities.

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.