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| (VERA NEUMANN), U.S. artist and designer (b. July 24, 1910, Stamford, Conn.--d. June 15, 1993, North Tarrytown, N.Y.), created brightly coloured scarves, bedroom and kitchen linens, and draperies and sportswear that bore her name. Vera, who had been a designer of children's furniture and murals, used only her first name after founding (1946... |
| Female spiders produce either one egg sac containing several to a thousand eggs or several egg sacs with successively fewer eggs. Females of some species die after producing the last egg sac or after the young have been taken care of; these females live one or, at most, two years. On the other hand, the females of the mygalomorph spiders may... |
| Serigraphic printing consists of forcing an ink, by pressing with a squeegee, through the mesh of a netting screen stretched on a frame, onto the object to be printed. The nonprinting areas of the screen are protected by a cutout stencil or by blocking up the mesh. |
| The silk industry's mixed fortunes during 1993 could be characterized by poor prices for raw silk and poor business outside China, excellent sales of garments of Far Eastern origin in Europe and the U.S., and rapidly rising prices for silk noils and noil yarns, largely due to fashion. At the time of the International Silk Association Congress in... |
| After many years of relative stability, the silk industry entered a period of turbulence and uncertainty in 1998. China, the major producer and exporter of raw silk, tried to regulate raw-silk prices by curtailing production, notably through the closing and/or merging of some small and inefficient reeling mills. As a result 1997 raw-silk... |
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