silk

necktie

dad joke

silkworm

one-liner

collective noun

spider

spider web

steel

trivia

insect

blanket

sex life

evolution

humanity

home building

is the thing that makes the difference in Adam's children.

is material invented so women could go naked in clothes.

Patience and a mulberry leaf will make a silk gown

is a kind of paste. Its texture depressions adapt themselves to body’s irregularities and especially hug the softer parts of the flesh.

The body eventually enfolds whatever it wears to its own shape The texture depressions in silk in 9 the end adapt themselves to body’s irregularities and especially hug the softer parts of the flesh. Silk is a kind of paste.

is a material that light clings to without ever stretching the material. In contrast, velvet makes light elastic.

Light clings to silk without ever stretching the material. In contrast, velvet makes light elastic. Silk makes the pelvis undulate; velvet swells out the hips where there is least play of skin. The tighter the velvet, the plumper a woman looks. Silk makes a dress serpentine. Silk on a thin 5 woman changes what was a slender frame into a dancing snake.

is the most enveloping of all known fabrics. It rounds out our own body as if it were our own skin, making it feel spherical such that we can’t even tell which limb is where.

No known fabric feels more completely envelop29 ing than silk. It rounds out our own body as if it were our own skin. This silk surround is so convincing that sometimes our whole body feels spherical and we can’t even tell which limb is where. Clad in silk under smooth silk sheets, the body disintegrates into sleep. A slippery silkiness on all surfaces relaxes the supports that hold us together.

is uncanny --- under smooth silk sheets, the body disintegrates into sleep. A slippery silkiness on all surfaces relaxes the supports that hold us together.

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