Corn had to be brought from one quarter, textile fabrics from another; Greece and Egypt were pillaged of their innumerable works of art, and Rome may be said to have been at that period the greatest museum of the universe.
The construction everywhere closely imitates wood-work, and the decoration reproduces textile fabrics such as carpets and striped tent covers.
In addition to this reproduction of textile fabrics in clay, we find with the Cis-Himalayans a tendency to overlay wood-carvings with metal coatings.
In ethnological collections all the garments of skin and leather, and all the textilefabrics are subject to the attacks of the Tineids, as they also are to those of the species to be noticed next.
The admirable construction of machinery shares in the enthusiasm excited by the beautiful fabrics woven by their tireless fingers; and the "Golden Marriage" of use and beauty is every where celebrated under varying forms.
To please the eye, colours and fabrics are chosen totally unfit to bear that rough usage which unrestrained play involves; and then to prevent damage the unrestrained play is interdicted.
The shepherds on the plains no doubt bought these fabrics when they could afford them.
They had large looms similar to ours, and wove on them beautiful fabrics of linen and wool.
All along one side of the ground of battle was a scaffolding of seats fair bedraped with fabrics of various colors and textures.
Prehistoric textile fabricsof the United States, derived from impressions on pottery;—Illustrated catalogue of a portion of the collections made by the Bureau of Ethnology during the field season of 1881.
The fabrics were preserved by being placed in contact with copper implements.
Spinning, weaving, and dyeing were arts which were sources of employment to a great number of people, owing to the quantity and variety of the fabrics for which there was a demand.
The richest accumulation of graphic data relative to the fabrics of Peru is contained in the great work on the Necropolis of Ancon.
Mordanting fabrics has a similar object,--the adsorption of colloidogenic substances which give rise to an adsorbent gel on the fibre.
Fabrics of all kinds have become possibilities since their dust-collecting capacity is now no longer a source of terror, as vacuum cleaners are one of the commonplaces of existence.
Plain casement cloth or the different "Sunfast" fabrics are attractive with plain or figured papers, especially in bedrooms of country houses.
When the warp in some of the coarser fabrics is not entirely covered it is sometimes dyed, which gives an indescribable charm.
In all the more brilliant textile fabrics of India warmth is secured without violence of contrast; and one fact it will be well for Western manufacturers to study--namely, that floral or animal decoration is invariably flat.
It is possible that this art was brought here from Italy by some Venetian merchants, who in 977 built up a portion of what is now the Faubourg St. Martial and established an extensive trade in fabrics and spices with the Levant.
They cultivated large tracts of ground, wove fabrics of cotton and produced ornate pottery.
Many people who are interested in the beautiful fabricsof which the author treats have long wished for such a book as this and will be grateful to G.
He had always come laden with gifts of Oriental products, and the rooms at Garden Steps showed many rare specimens of cunning handiwork and rich fabrics and embroideries.
Not especially appropriate garb for a secretary, but Miss Carrington preferred her household to be well-dressed, and really commanded pretty tints and fabrics for the two girls.
The place is crowded with people all the time, and as the gay-colored Eastern fabrics are lavishly displayed before every shop, the great Bazaar of Stamboul is one of the sights that are worth seeing.
Some of these fabrics emblemize the blue heaven glittering with silver stars; others the clouds, with sunlight shimmering through them.
These fabrics are more delicate and gossamer-like than any with which you are familiar on earth.
We read how Alexander the Great brought home from Persia wonderful silk fabrics when he and Aristotle went there to collect curiosities.
It is this cotton which the natives weave into coarse fabricsin their looms.
Various methods of printing on silk and various fabrics have from time to time been given.
The sun gives lustre to fabricsand imparts colours which can be supplied by no other means.
There are numerous other beautiful colours prepared in different ways under the influence of the sun, and, by the action of the same luminary, fabrics for ladies' dresses are endowed with the power of repelling heat.
The loveliest colours of our fabrics are those imparted by the action of the sun with the aid of instruments fitted to the purpose.
These prohibitions should not be permitted to continue, because they exclude most of our products and fabrics and prevent the collection of revenue.
How wonderful, how inconceivable, that such stupendousfabrics should rise into existence from the silent but incessant, and almost imperceptible, labours of such insignificant worms!
I have found in practice that the most delicate fabrics may be subjected to this treatment without danger of destruction, and that no special care is needed either in preparing the mould or in pouring the metal.
The colors in Greek and Roman fabricswas always wool-dyed.
There was but little employment for the tailor or dressmaker in Greece or Italy, most of the fabrics of the loom being worn as scarfs or shawls, arranged in loose folds about the person.
One of his most ingenious contrivances was his loom for weaving simultaneously two pieces of velvet or other piled fabric, united by the pile common to both, with a knife and traversing apparatus for separating the two fabrics when woven.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fabrics" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
