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designer pillows - Some interesting 20th-century tapestries have been woven in France from cartoons by Rouault, Braque, Lurçat, Picasso, and Calder. 7 Important public collections in the United States that contain fine examples of tapestry weaving are those in the Metropolitan Museum (including the magnificent Hunt of the Unicorn series at the Cloisters) and in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. si_lk - fine, translucent, yellowish fiber produced by the si_lkworm in making its cocoon and covered with sericin, a protein. Many varieties of si_lk-spinning worms and insects are known, but the si_lkworm of commerce is

the larva of the Bombyx mori, or mulberry si_lkworm, and other closely related moths. Wild si_lk is the product of the tussah worm of India and China, which feeds on oaks. It is now semicultivated, as groves of dwarf trees are provided for its feeding. It spins a coarser, flatter, yellower filament than the Bombyx mori, and the color does not boil out with the gum. Tussah si_lk is a rough, durable, washable fabric known as shantung or pongee. In si_lk manufacture, the first operation is reeling. The cocoons, having been sorted for color and texture, are steamed or placed in warm water to soften the natural gum.

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