All Tuesday week afternoon she was hunting to match that chenille but at last she found what she wanted at Clery's summer sales, the very it, slightly shopsoiled but you would never notice, seven fingers two and a penny.
She wore a coquettish little love of a hat of wideleaved nigger straw contrast trimmed with an underbrim of eggblue chenille and at the side a butterfly bow of silk to tone.
If small cork models are constructed, the trees should be formed by transfixing short pieces of shaded chenille with a fine wire (.
The extreme richness of the appearance of chenille makes it suitable for any work requiring great brilliancy; as the plumage of birds, some flowers, and arabesques.
Do not allow the chenille to interfere with the closing of the box, but place it along the inside edge of the box and lid.
By covering the wax withchenille it can be perfectly hidden.
Her hair was carefully arranged and massed in a bluechenille net.
The red ribbon and the chenille net worn by the brunette were torn off; the waist of her dress was ripped from throat to belt and showed the white skin on the shoulder.
This obelisk stood in the midst of a ground made very green by an embroidery of different shades of chenille and silk, and was overshadowed by an embroidered weeping-willow.
The faint light was touching her face, and her mournful dress with its heavy crape trimmings,—there were no white chenille and silver brooches now; Joy had laid these things aside of her own wish.
Joy always fancied coming here, gay in her white chenille and white ribbons, and dainty parasol lined with white silk.
But I know it's perfectly ridiculous to rig up in white chenille and silver pins, when anybody's in such deep mourning as you.
The chenille is worked one way, and the silver goes the other way, contrary to regular crochet work.
In the two middle stitches of the chenille take up the silver, and in the middle stitches of the silver take up the chenille, each going in a slanting way, once over and once under each other, as the drawing (No.
She covered the bureau and sewing machine with sheets, and unhooked the chenille portieres between the bedroom and the sitting-room.
The melodeon was hauled out into the middle of the floor, and covered with a sheet marked "Lot A," the pictures were in a pile in a corner, the chenille portieres were folded on top of the black walnut table.
A door hung with chenille portieres--a bargain at two dollars and a half--admitted one to the bedroom.
The dentist crossed the outside room, parted the chenille portieres, and came in.
Selina sat at the parlor melodeon, fingering the keys, her glance wandering to the chenille portieres.
May oblivion be one day granted to that awful chenille table cover and those appalling chairs which outrage the beautiful woodwork and the golden tatami of a great building!
She looked about for something to use as a duster, and saw an old end of chenille curtain on the walnut dresser.
The cotton-wool frogs and the chenille monkeys are disarranged, and there are walking things on the sofa.
Gimcracks in an etagere: a festoon of chenille monkeys hanging from the gaselier.
Floor--Hardwood--Rag rugs, with rose stripes or a gray chenille carpet.
Above the dog is a small yellow and black pansy, then a large blue 'lace' butterfly, on a chenille patch, and a brown flying bird.
Tillie gazed down upon the chenille table-cover, and did not speak.
For an illustrated technical account of chenille manufacture, see Encyclopedia Britannica, 14th edition; vol.
Any machine-made pile rug which has been chemically washed to soften the colors and give it sheen and luster; made in the Wilton, Axminster and chenille weaves.
The women would pinch the thick, exquisite old chenille fringe, delicate and faded, curious to feel its softness.
Chenille is used as a trimming for dress and furniture.
Two colors or two tones may be woven with chenille and silk in a kindergarten design.
One has a cross-stitched pattern of chenille, and in another the chenille was alternated with silk in the warp, and both chenille and silk were used in the woof.
Choose a needle as large as can be conveniently used, and be careful not to have the lengths of chenille too long, as it is apt to get rough in the working.
Small sprigs are pretty, for work that is not too large; chenille is proper for the flowers, and the stalks and leaves look best in silk; a few gold beads add to the effect.
The chenille must pass through the material freely, so as not to draw it.
The best instrument for this purpose is a chenille needle.
About the easiest body to make is one of chenilleribbed with tinsel.
The fuzzy grey pussies push out, and lengthen into soft chenille fringes that wave gracefully from every twig.
The catkins of the staminate flowers are like thick, chenille fringes, six inches long, often longer, hanging in May below the new leaves.
The gown was white satin embroidered also with chenille mixed with gold, no vase on the sleeve, but two or three on the tail; it was a most laboured piece of finery, the pattern much properer for a stucco staircase than the apparel of a lady.
The carding-machine takes the cable lengths, subjects them to another course of torture, confirms the direction of the fibres, and reduces the cable into a chenille of about the thickness of a lady's finger.
This chenille is produced in lengths of about five feet, across the machine, parallel with the rollers, and is immediately transferred to the piecing-machine, by a highly ingenious process.
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