In the case of books printed on handmade paper, this is generally true of octavos, but to reduce the amount of sewing the earliest folios were usually arranged in tens, i.
The size of a book printed on handmade paper "is very simply recognized by holding up a page to the light.
For ordinary work and experiments, modern paper is quite good enough, and very good handmade paper can be obtained from Roberson's.
But as a general rule the old handmade Dutch paper is the most satisfactory, if you can get it.
In fact, it is best to use a good handmade white paper; you will be surer of your result, and that is what you are working for.
Would the veil hold the handmade curls in exactly the proper place?
You have known us, John, ever since Eileen sat in the sun to dry her handmade curls, while I was leaving a piece of my dress on every busk in Multiflores Canyon.
I told them all about my visit to the handmade gentleman.
HERON COMES TO A TURN IN THE ROAD [Illustration: 9221] FTER breakfast I found the handmade gentleman at his factory, and went with him into all its departments, and saw a hundred men and women at work.
I'd trust my life with him," said the handmade gentleman.
Yes, my baby has never worn anything but handmade clothes," said Dee with all the airs of a young mother.
The transformation was completed just as our train was called, and with preternaturally solemn countenances we trooped through the gate, the handmade dress of the baby hanging over Dee's arm in a most life-like manner.
To begin with, there is the paper; a good tough handmade paper, like drawing paper, is wanted for rich and bright impressions of type or woodcuts.
New Grasset characters have been used for this work, limited to 500 numbered copies on handmade paper; each page of text is contained in an artistic green border, and the work in its entirety constitutes a volume of rare excellence.
The Trial of Oscar Wilde Issued for Private Circulation Only and Limited to 50 Copies on Japanese Vellum and Five Hundred Copies on Handmade Paper Numbered from One to Five Hundred and Fifty.
This peculiar texture of handmade paper of the first class delights the connoisseur, and furnishes a printing surface superior, in some respects, to any machine-made paper.
Handmade Japanese Window or Shoji Paper used for mending and guarding can be obtained from Japan Paper Co.
Handmade paper can sometimes be distinguished by these variations in its thickness.
The drum was shaped like a miniature conga, handmadewith a skin head that was lashed tight.
He walked up and down through trees, past tiny ponds, mossy rock faces, handmade bamboo fountains, patches of flowers, and unexpected views.
Every summer for the last year or two the Cape has been sufferin' from a plague of fellers peddlin' handmade lace, and embroidery, and such.
When he got back that night, he had the bottom of the wagon covered with bundles of knittin' and handmade contraptions, and he made proclamations that he hadn't begun to cover the available territory.
Well, there's plenty of handmade embroideries and laces, not to mention lamp mats and bed quilts, made right here on the Cape, too.
Fust off, him and me was to see all the old ladies and young girls in Ostable and the surroundin' country, and get 'em to agree to sell their handmade knittin' to us.
Handmade garments are very beautiful to look at, but when they mean the sacrifice of health, because one has remained indoors to make them, they appear less beautiful.
This seam is often used on dainty handmade underwear.
It could be run by hand if all handmade or featherstitched with tiny stitches.
True, a little Italian girl carried her food in a handmade straw bag that might be called a basket, while a Russian displayed a quaint braided affair from the Homelands; but boxes and bags, American in make, were mostly in evidence.
Besides the ordinary edition a limited number of an edition de luxe was issued printed in brown ink on one side only of a thin transparent handmade parchment paper, the whole book being interleaved with green tissue.
The above are printed at the Chiswick Press on handmade paper.
Also fifty copies on old English handmade paper, each signed by the author.
Printed at the De Vinne Press on Van Gelder handmade paper.
With great solemnity Granny takes the handmade taper from the candlestick on the mantel-shelf, places it in the hands of the oldest man child, to whom the father now passes a lighted pine stick.
Thomas, prints his little paper from his own handmade type on his own handmade press.
About 8 x 10 inches, printed on handmade linen paper soaked in weak coffee, wrappers.
Case is handmade of wood, with fabric panels covered with glass on five sides.
A much inferior kind is made with a woven braid or tape, the turns of the pattern being made in twisted or puckered braid, much after the style of the handmade Point lace made in England some thirty years ago.
To the first-named class we must assign the Needlepoint laces of Italy and the exquisite handmade laces of France.
The producing of fine, handmade underwear, waists, and dresses is another opportunity for girls who can take but a short time in which to prepare to earn their living.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "handmade" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
