In winter, geisha can be seen wearing a three-quarter length haori lined with hand-painted silk over their kimono.

The latter are reversible, black silk on one side with lavish silk brocade or hand-painted silk on the other.

The free self-guided walking tour includes works like McKevin Shaughnessy's light sculptures, Tim Daly's realist landscapes of Hudson County and Sissi Siska's hand-painted silks.

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

"Pairs of beautiful tangram problem and solution books were sold with intricately carved ivory and mother-of-pearl covers; some books even had the pages covered with hand-painted silk."

Julia Sperry, for example, is exhibiting a self-portrait in which the foundation fabric is hand-painted silk.

Its radiant hand-painted silk backdrops may also increase your appreciation of the art of set design; they magically create an immersive beauty out of almost nothing.

Tom and Linda Platt worked the hand-painted Japanese silks into a short, belted trench coat worn over a metallic striped minidress.

The hand-painted silk fluttered like butterfly kisses as it rose and then settled in the air rising from the radiator.

Shoppers sampled Israeli foods, looked through Israeli jewelry and hand-painted silks and rubbed Ahava skin cream on their hands.