shantung

SHANTUNG PROVINCE AND SOUTHERN BAPTIST MISSIONARIES

The mother of the bride wore a Catherine Walker sky blue silk shantung "Sydney" day dress with short pleated sleeves and pleated pockets.

Instead, try the Shantung Egg Chicken Rice ( ` 195) that comes wrapped in an omelet.

HIGH TEA: Red structured dress, pounds 120, and red shantung shrug, pounds 99, from Alexon.

* PERFECT for creating a feature wall in your home is this dramatic Shantung design by Laurence Llewellyn Bowen, left, available at Stockton-based Race For Furniture and Home Interiors priced pounds 21.99 per roll.

A sheath dress and stole was assembled by hand from more than 650 tiny geometric shapes covered in shantung silk shot with lurex.

Bargains include this beautiful navy blue pleat shantung shift dress now just pounds 30 from pounds 75 and Linda wash cherry jeans, pounds 21 from pounds 45.

artisanhouse.com 3 This table lamp from Murray Feiss' Maddox collection incorporates ebonized silver leaf and eggshell shantung fabric.

Ronald and Gwyneth Still sailed from British shores for China in August 1935 to join the Baptist Missionary Society's mission in a town they called Chouts'un (Zhoucun), in Shantung (Shandong) Province, where Ronald Still was to take up a position in the BMS Foster Hospital.

right: floral border-printed silk shantung surplice dress with black patent-leather belt by Kevan Hall, $2,300.

The usurping Emperor, or rather, his father, is head of the great secret societies known as "The Great Sword" and "The Boxers", extending over the provinces of Chih-Li, Shantung, and Honar,members of which recently murdered the Rev Mr Brookes, an English missionary.

There are elaborate reworkings of classic shapes using various materials from solid and printed duchess satin and wool jacquard to taffeta, tweed, printed shantung and herringbone broadcloth.