1.   A layer of stiff silk threads separated the two.

2.   A length of yarn to cut into four equal pieces, and besides that, some white silk thread and tinfoil.

3.   Hair is a Marvellous natural fibre - you could almost compare it to pure silk thread.

4.   Under anaesthesia with pentobarbital sodium, a median incision was made in the abdomen and the gastric pylorus was ligated with silk thread.

5.   -- The silk thread a spider produces is stronger than a piece of steel the same size.

6.   Every night Grandmother ties together pieces of silk thread.

7.   Few people are willing to devote the hundreds of hours required to stitch the intricate patterns in silk thread on the cotton backing.

8.   How spiders unfold the proteins and spin them together into silk threads is not well understood.

9.   In this technique, the gold threads are not drawn through a needle but attached with bits of silk thread.

10.   Its complex process involved twisting the silk threads, basting the pleats, then setting them with a final steaming.