Sentences with phrase «of silk fibres»

The triangular prism - like structure of the silk fibre allows silk to refract incoming light at different angles, which create luminosity, and the end result is that any silk close to your face will create a flattering glow!

Not exact matches

«I was intrigued by the remarkable mechanical properties of these fibres spun by worms and spiders,» Kaplan says of what made him investigate silk in 1989.

Chinese Princess Xi Ling Shi usually gets credit for the discovery of silk as a usable fibre in 2640 BC.

Into this small space I've squeezed three tables, including my drawing board, several sewing machines, my laptop, a couple of dress forms, a chest of drawers just for sewing threads, boxes of beads, embroidery silks, buttons, fibres, tools, yarns and enough fabric to make a circus tent out of, plus all my reference books.

To dye animal fibres (wool, alpaca, silk) the undyed skeins of yarn are soaked in a mixture of water, citric acid and salt, which ensures good dye take - up.

Christine Radtke is working to use spider silk to reconnect severed nerve fibres Radtke and her colleagues at the Medical University of Hannover, from whence the surgeon transferred to Vienna in October 2016, developed a new microsurgical technique that involves filling the veins with spider silk to form a longitudinal guide structure.

«The nerve fibres use the silk fibres to grow along in order to reconnect with the other end of the nerve.

The EPSRC - funded study, published in Biomacromolecules and undertaken by University of Bristol researchers, explored the feasibility of using natural fibres such as silk and cellulose as stem cell scaffolds — the matrix to which stem cells can cling to as they grow.

Stephen Fossey, one of the researchers, explains that Kevlar, the DuPont fibre, «can elongate up to 4 per cent before breaking, while spider silks can stretch by as much as 15 per cent before breaking».

Along with understanding how a spider turns a liquid blend of water - soluble proteins within its glands into an insoluble fibre emerging from a spinneret just a fraction of a millimetre away, Fossey also hopes that his team will discover if all the silks his spider produces start from the same proteins: «Some silks remain as sticky as glue, while others contract in the presence of water.

«We now understand about 50 per cent of the protein chemistry of the silk, but our goal is a complete understanding of the original protein building blocks, the process of turning them into a crystalline polymer, and the curing of this polymer into a tough, almost insoluble fibre.

«These are still early days, but our results are a proof of concept that paves the way to exploiting the naturally efficient spider spinning process to produce reinforced bionic silk fibres, thus further improving one of the most promising strong materials.»

Spider silk is already among the best spun polymer fibres when to comes to its tensile strength (actually higher than that of high grade steel) and strain, and especially toughness modulus.

Spiders have perfected their silk over 400 million years of evolution and the fibre they spin is a semi-crystalline composite biopolymer made up of several amino acids organized into semi-amorphous helical - elastic alpha - chains and beta - pleated nanocrystals.

Guerlain Technology, Bio-Fusion micro-mesh, an unprecedented combination of contouring and smoothing stretch fibres with natural silk and linen fibres that are in total affinity with skin.

The term satin refers to the way of weaving the silk fibres.

At Tissura, Agnona is represented with premium wool boucle, jersey knit, alpaca, cashmere and the blends of noble wool fibres with silk.

Its fibres are much thinner than even those of silk, and it makes cashmere fabulously soft.

It features a spider - web pattern of fibres, some of which are made from a real synthetically - created spider silk material.

Aston Martin and Red Bull Racing pulled the silk off of their 001 on July 5; the joint - venture hypercar promises to deliver a power - to - weight ratio of one - horsepower - per - kilogram, thanks to its V12 - engine and carbon - fibre construction.

Among our favourites are her fibre drawings — wisps of blue yarn captured between paper and glass — and the small, very poetic diary entries in coloured linen, silk and cotton that she weaves each night before drifting off to sleep.

Fair Trade silk products are available, but we unaware of any supply of Certified Fair Trade silk fibre or fabric.

Literally, because for this greek company the perfect bed is made up of at least 4 layers, all made from natural materials from renewable sources, such as coco fibre, natural rubber, wool, cotton, sea grass, horsehair, silk, linen, wood and goose down.

The bedroom is at one end, furnished with one of Coco - mat's comfortable mattresses, which use natural materials from renewable sources, such as coconut fibre, natural rubber, wool, cotton, sea grass, horsehair, silk, linen, wood and goose down.

The rest of MEV's items, even if they're not specifically «eco», are all made with natural fibres, such as cotton, modal, silk, and linen.

Woven using silk fibres - which are easy to dye, resulting in rich colour pay - off - velvet comes in a myriad of different hues.