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 Translation for 'silk' from English to Finnish
NOUN1   a silk | silks
NOUN2   silk | - | -
vaate
silkkihuivi {noun}
silk scarf
taide
silkkipaino {noun}
silk-screen printing
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Translation for 'silk' from English to Finnish

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silk scarf
silkkihuivi {noun}vaate

silk-screen printing
silkkipaino {noun}taide
Usage Examples English
  • A black silk hood fully lined and bound all edges with the faculty silk. Before the abolishment of Convocation, members were entitled to a facing of white silk.
  • hesperus" produces three different types of silk: dragline silk, inner egg case silk, and scaffolding silk.
  • Silk is extracted from both reared caterpillars as well as from the wild (producing wild silk).
  • Arts faculties: orange silk dress, black silk gown, flap batiste, shoe in orange silk with three rows of ermine, orange ribbon belt with fringe and twisted orange silk hat in orange silk braid gold.
  • Huzhou is well known as one of the birthplaces for silk cultivation.

  • Ramanagara is well known for its sericulture, and is nicknamed Silk Town and Silk City .
  • "Khazz" silk ("al-khazz" الخزّ ")" was a blended silk cloth made of silk and wool.
  • Macclesfield became a centre of the Silk Industry during the Industrial Revolution.
  • A silk mill is a factory that makes silk for garments using a process called silk throwing.
  • The silk in the cocoon of the silk moth can be unraveled to harvest silk fibre which makes this moth the most economically important of all lepidopterans.

  • The Japanese water spider spins four main kinds of silk: (1) silk used for the diving bell, (2) silk to anchor the diving bell to water plants, (3) silk for “walking” so as to get prey and mate, and (4) silk for the egg-cocoon.
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