Word: raw-silk
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...ETRO raw-silk patchwork pillow ($265; etro.com...
...women, who are credited with having the shapeliest legs in the world, last week faced the horrifying knowledge that soon they would have to go silk-stockingless. Raw-silk imports from Japan had ended. There was just no more silk for stockings...
...India in 1952, and Menuhin persuaded Shankar to play last summer at the Bath Festival in England. In what both performers termed "an experiment," Menuhin practiced his violin for two days under Shankar's coaching so that he could sit in on a raga. Clad in a raw-silk tunic and sitting cross-legged amid a haze of incense, Menuhin might indeed have passed for a native fidllist, except that he did not rest the head of his fiddle on his toe in the traditional Indian manner...
...nomination, a party official visited Mrs. Phillips, gave her a reported $25,000-$50,000 and suggested that she take a little vacation-say for six months. Soon afterwards, Carrie and her husband James took a slow boat to the Far East to look into conditions in the raw-silk market...
This is not the first time that silk has seriously troubled Japan. Between 1930 and 1934 U.S. depression and the world onset of rayon (which had most of silk's qualities except elasticity) forced raw-silk prices down from $7 to $1.30 a pound. Japan found partial solutions to the problem. She went off gold, restricted silk production and greatly increased her small domestic silk consumption. She built up her own rayon industry until it approached her silk business, became the world's No. 1 rayon producer...