The state government supplies the materials, including imported Chinese silk.

She sat in the late afternoon sun like a winsome old lady embroidered on a Chinese silk.

She stripped one from the back of the settee, a piece of embroidered Chinese silk.

Standing next to the captain, the doctor looked exotic in an oriental pants-dress of pale green Chinese silk.

Halim owns a fabric stall in the market, selling both batik and Chinese silk.

All the ties are made from hand-printed Chinese silk.

An 18th-century Chinese embroidered silk hanging depicts a large bearded sage.

It is upholstered with hand-painted Chinese silk in a pattern copied from an 18th-century original.

Moving closer, she discovered the portrait of a young blond woman wearing a gown of blue Chinese silk and a radiant smile.

By wearing Chinese silk, you were making a statement about your place in society.