This is supposed to mean a garment richly embroidered with the needle in figures in gold thread, after the manner of Egyptian stitchery.
All the lighter outlines shown in the illustration are worked in gold thread.
The network upon the leather is formed of threads of black purse silk, fastened at every crossing with a stitch of gold thread; the outer border round this network is formed entirely of gold braid.
This pattern is embroidered on white silk rep with silver and gold thread, and sewn on over a black velvet, rep, or cloth centre.
The face is, possibly enough, as well done as the material would allow, but the hair is made in small curls of gold thread, and the feathers of the wings are rendered in a naturalistic way with pieces of flat gold braid.
Both figures are enclosed in a flat oval border of gold thread, broad at the top and narrowing towards the foot.
Gold thread work in spiral forms has very much the effect of filagree in gold wire.
Florentine tissues, especially their velvet and gold brocades, were particularly splendid, and can be recognized by the loops ofgold thread drawn to the surface and left there.
The faces and hands are in white silk--all the rest between the outlines is gold thread, flat stitch.
Severus was aware of his regalia, and especially of the sky-blue shoes with the Imperial Eagles embroidered on them in gold thread.
The bearings on these coats are worked in gold thread on a couched groundwork of silk of the proper colours.
The bearings, worked in gold thread, are enclosed in an oval of pink satin studded with a row of small pearls.
The large coronation mantle of the Holy Roman Empire, preserved in the Imperial Treasury at Vienna, is semicircular in shape, of red silk, richly embroidered in gold thread, the outlines emphasised by rows of seed pearls.
The Kings of Egypt had their beards interwoven with gold thread.
Superior Manufacture of Gold Thread made at Fas, as well as Imitations of Amber.
The ladies wore robes of Indian muslin, girdles of gold thread, interwoven with silk of the Fas manufacture; and their shawls of silk and gold were displayed in various elegant devices.
The former is woven of silk of various colours, but without admixture of gold thread, and bears an inscription in Arabic which Amador de los Rios has interpreted as, "Glory to our Sultan Abul-Hachach.
Within her walls dwell cunning weavers who produce in quantities magnificent silken cloths inwoven with gold thread.
The introduction of gold thread, so much found in all oriental embroidery, enriches and heightens the effects of the colours very much, and on the unbleached linens and muslins, where the pattern is quite light, it has a charming effect.
These may be of almost any kind; silk, gold thread, cord, wool or cotton, can all be employed with good effect.
Another woollen piece, attributed to the following century, has a stem and arrow-head leaves worked in gold thread.
For this purpose, silk or gold thread may be introduced with advantage.
The corner stitch should be of some brilliant colored silk, if not of gold thread: the top of one square will be the bottom of another, and you work the three stitches between the corners in black or dark wool.
When each row is finished, the intersectional diamonds must be filled in; which may be done either in silk or gold thread, and has an extremely neat appearance.
The earliest form of gold thread in use was the pure metal beaten into thin plates and then cut into long narrow strips; that it was sometimes rounded into wire form is very probable.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gold thread" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
