Color Names

Translucent Silk

Pale, luminous silk, woven so fine it's almost transparent.

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Translucent Silk is a pale beige.

It can be described as pale, delicate, faded and luminous.

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Translucent Silk

Transparency and translucency

In the field of optics, transparency is the physical property of allowing light to pass through the material without appreciable scattering of light. On a macroscopic scale, the photons can be said to follow Snell's law. Translucency is the physical property of allowing light to pass through the material. It allows light to pass through but the light does not necessarily follow Snell's law on the macroscopic scale; the photons may be scattered at either of the two interfaces, or internally, where there is a change in the index of refraction. In other words, a translucent material is made up of components with different indices of refraction, while a transparent material is made up of components with a uniform index of refraction. Transparent materials appear clear, with the overall appearance of one color, or any combination leading up to a brilliant spectrum of every color. The opposite property of translucency is opacity. Other categories of visual appearance, related to the perception of regular or diffuse reflection and transmission of light, have been organized under the concept of cesia in an order system with three variables, including transparency, translucency and opacity among the involved aspects.

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Silk

Silk is a natural protein fiber, some forms of which can be woven or knitted into textiles. The protein fiber of silk is composed mainly of fibroin (75-80%) and a smaller coating of sericin (20-25%). It is most commonly produced from the cocoons of certain insect larvae. The best-known silk is obtained from the cocoons of the larvae of the mulberry silkworm Bombyx mori, which are reared in captivity (sericulture).

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translucent

Adjective

  1. Allowing light to pass through, but diffusing it.
  2. Clear, lucid, or transparent.

Noun

  1. Something that is translucent.
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silk

Noun

  1. A fine fiber excreted by the silkworm or other arthropod (such as a spider).
  2. A thread or yarn made from silk fibers.

Verb

  1. To develop silk.
  2. To remove the silk from (corn).
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