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Sgian dubh
Sgian dubh (sgian-dhubh), Scottish Gaelic for "black knife": a small single-edged Highland dress knife worn sheathed in the kilt hose. Derived from the concealed sgian achlais, now ceremonial, exempt under UK national costume rules, and endangered as a craft.
Shaka sign
The shaka sign, also called hang loose, is Hawaii's thumb-and-pinky gesture of greeting, thanks, and aloha. Attributed to Hamana Kalili, it became Hawaii's official state gesture in 2024, the first in the U.S.
Shaker furniture
Shaker furniture is the plain, rectilinear, highly functional furniture made and used by the Shakers, a communal American Protestant sect, from the late eighteenth century onward.
Shalwar kameez
Shalwar kameez (salwar kameez), the national dress of Pakistan: loose drawstring trousers plus a long tunic, often with a dupatta, worn by men and women across South Asia with Persian and Mughal roots and named variants like Patiala and Peshawari.
Shanina Shaik
Shanina Shaik (born 1991, Melbourne) is an Australian model of Saudi, Pakistani, and Lithuanian descent, a Victoria's Secret runway regular since 2011, IMG-represented, mother of Zai, and Save the Children Australia ambassador.
Sharbush
Sharbush (الشربوش, also harbush): medieval Islamic high-crowned fur-trimmed military cap worn instead of a turban, an amirs' investiture insignia under the Ayyubids and Mamluks; abolished under the Burji Mamluks, predecessor of the tarbush name.
Shaun Ross (model)
Shaun Ross, born 1991 in the Bronx, is the first international male fashion model with albinism, founder of In My Skin I Win, and a 2021 debut album artist (Shift), distinct from baseball player Shawn Ross.
Shawl
Shawl: a rectangular, square, or triangular drape of cloth worn over shoulders, head, or upper body, with no seams or fastenings. From Persian shal; famed Kashmir pashmina shawls, the boteh or paisley motif, and the Jacquard-loom European imitations.
Sheila Hicks
Sheila Hicks (born 1934, Hastings, Nebraska) is an American fiber and textile artist based in Paris since 1964, trained under Josef Albers at Yale, known for Minimes, fiber sculptures, and monumental commissions.
Shein
Shein (希音), also styled SHEIN, is a Singapore-headquartered global online fast-fashion retailer founded in China in 2012, using an on-demand small-batch LATR model, serving ~273 million customers in ~160 markets, and listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (ticker 0625) in September 2026.
Sheldon coin grading scale
Sheldon coin grading scale: the 1-to-70 numeric scale proposed by Dr. William H. Sheldon in Early American Cents (1948) for large cents, originally a value-multiplier formula, now the industry standard used by PCGS and NGC.
Shen Shao'an
Shen Shao'an (沈绍安, courtesy name Zhongkang; 1767–1835) was a Qing dynasty lacquer artisan of Houguan County in Fuzhou who created bodiless lacquerware, reviving the ancient jiazhu dry-lacquer method.
Shetland knitting
Shetland knitting is the wool-based knitwear tradition of the Shetland Islands, known for fine lace and Fair Isle colourwork; at its 1980s peak it employed up to 2,000 home knitters.
Shi Dabin
Shi Dabin (时大彬, style name Shaoshan) was a Ming dynasty potter of Yixing, Jiangsu, regarded as the founding master of the hand-formed Yixing zisha teapot.
Shibori (絞り)
Shibori (絞り, shiborizome) is Japanese resist dyeing: cloth is bound, stitched, folded, or clamped before dyeing so compressed areas stay undyed. Known in Japan since the 6th-7th centuries, with traditions such as Kyo Kanoko silk tying and Arimatsu-Narumi cotton shibori.
Shilling
Shilling: historic British coin and unit of account worth 12 pence, 20 to the pound; first struck as the testoon about 1504, re-valued at 5p in 1971, demonetised 1990; also the currency of Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and Somalia.
Shilling (British coin)
The British shilling, nicknamed "bob", was a sterling coin worth 12 pre-decimal pence, one twentieth of a pound. Introduced under Henry VII as the testoon, it circulated until demonetisation on 31 December 1990.
Shimaoka Tatsuzō
Shimaoka Tatsuzō (島岡達三, 1919–2007) was a Japanese potter in Mashiko who created the Jōmon zōgan cord-marked inlay technique and was named a Living National Treasure in 1996.
Shirt
A shirt is an upper-body garment typically featuring a collar, a buttoned front, and long or short sleeves, covering tailored dress shirts, knit T-shirts, and polos.
Short row (knitting)
Short rows (partial knitting, Verkürzte Reihen) are knitting rows worked only partway before turning, used for sock heels, bust darts, and curved shaping; methods include wrap & turn, German double-stitch, Japanese, and shadow wrap.
Shorts
Shorts, also called short trousers or short pants, are garments that cover the pelvis and upper legs, sometimes to the knee, and are typically worn in warm weather.
Shoshanna Lonstein Gruss
Shoshanna Lonstein Gruss, American fashion designer and founder of the Shoshanna brand (1998), known for pioneering swimwear sold as separates with lingerie-inspired sizing; Manhattan-raised UCLA graduate, Elizabeth Arden Style Director, philanthropist.
Shroud
A shroud is a cloth or garment for wrapping a dead body before burial, also called a winding sheet. Covers Islamic kafan rules, Jewish tachrichim, English woolen-shroud laws of 1666 and 1679, Roman Egyptian painted shrouds, and modern shroud-only burial.
Shrunken head
A shrunken head, or tsantsa, is a ceremonial trophy made by Amazonian peoples of Ecuador and Peru by shrinking human head skin, until the mid twentieth century.
Shtreimel
Shtreimel (Yiddish שטרײַמל, shtrayml): wide donut-shaped fur hat worn by married Hasidic men on Shabbat and holidays; thirteen fur skins symbolize the thirteen attributes of mercy; distinct from the taller black spodik of Gur and the brown kolpik; costs up to 25,000+ shekels.
Shu brocade
Shu brocade (蜀锦) is a figured silk jacquard brocade woven in Chengdu, Sichuan, the oldest of China's Four Famous Brocades, produced for over two thousand years.
Shweshwe
Shweshwe, also called isishweshwe or seshoeshoe, is a discharge-printed cotton cloth, originally indigo with white patterns, worn across southern Africa and manufactured by Da Gama Textiles in the Eastern Cape.
Shweta Bachchan Nanda (श्वेता बच्चन नंदा)
Shweta Bachchan Nanda (श्वेता बच्चन नंदा), born 1971, is an Indian columnist, author of Paradise Towers (2018), and co-designer of the MXS label with Monisha Jaising; she is the daughter of Amitabh and Jaya Bachchan and wife of Nikhil Nanda.
Sickday
Sickday (SICKDAY) names a Wellfleet, Massachusetts surf and skate shop founded by Olaf Valli in April 2005, and Sickday, LLC, a New York City medical house-call service operating since 2007; also a Line ski line and a band.
Silla goldwork
Silla goldwork is the gold ornaments, above all crowns, belts, and earrings, made by the Silla kingdom (57 BCE – 676 CE) and buried in royal mound tombs at Gyeongju.