In plaiting coarse mats and sails may have begun the textile art which to-day gives us the linens of Belfast, the silks of Lyons and Milan.
The best linens and silks are spun in exceedingly fine threads; canvases and tweeds have threads comparatively coarse.
The profit in fine goods, such as the linens before mentioned, is still more considerable, not being subject to so heavy a charge for carriage.
Linens are selling to great advantage, a cargo would now render 60 per cent.
Several manufactures of printed linens are established here," wrote Swinburne, in 1775, "but have not yet arrived at any great elegance of design or liveliness of colour.
Hand-blocked linens vary in price with the quality of materials and craftsmanship, and also with the number of blockings required to form the design.
Figures, very lively and durable Colours, and without the offensive smell which commonly attends the Linens Printed here.
Figures, very lively and durable Colours, and without the offensive Smell which commonly attends the Linens printed here.
It is a fact, however, that we every day experience; you know how it fades the colours of linens and silks.
If it is true that in the days of the Greeks and Romans the art of acupictura or needle-painting copied pictorial art, so likewise in the Egyptian early times, painted linens imitated embroideries.
Some centuries later the Emperor Chan received tribute in linens and silken stuffs.
The night with me, a heavy three-year-old, in her arms that she got us to the border, dragging a pack of linens with her!
As a natural result, crewels were soon discarded in favor of silks, and natural extravagance, or national influence, led to the use of costly materials instead of the linens of English choice and preference.
He promised to pay me cash for fifty thousand dollars' worth of Holland linens a week ago; I have not seen the color of his money yet, and I mean to wait no longer.
Send the linens back to me and accounts shall be square between us, and I will submit to the loss of the interest.
With the proceeds of his linens and his lungs, he was rich enough to retire from the vicissitudes of operatic life, to some safe retreat in his native Spain or his adoptive Italy.
In the autumn of the year 1825, it seemed good to this worthy merchant to despatch a vessel with a cargo chiefly made up of linens to the market of New York.
The next day came, and with it came, betimes, the packages of linens to M.
Egypt in early ages was the great centre of textile manufactures, and her white and coloured linens were in high repute among contemporary nations.
Mrs. Swift and her daughters were wetting the linens and the two boys were busy in the vineyard.
We'll take their gold and jewels and fine linens and burn them in great bonfires all throughout the land to show we don't approve of such gewgaws.
And business being bad, much of the time he stood behind his linens and thought about a certain matter, which was this: How did Peter Niburg do it?
In a way, he was a stupid man, this pale-eyed clerk who sold the quaint red and yellow cottons of the common people side by side with the heavy linens that furnished forth the tables of the rich.
For quality, beauty, and variety of patterns, Scotch, French, and Irish linens are the best.
The pattern and quality and cost of table linens are mentioned in Chapter XXI.
Loughs Arrow and Gill; the manufacture of coarse woollens and linens and fishing are the principal industries; the Moy, Owenmore, and Garvogue are navigable rivers.
Madrid; now in a decayed state; was a flourishing place in Moorish times; contains interesting ruins; manufactureslinens and woollens, and trades in wine and fruits.
The homespun linens that were thus spun and woven and bleached were one of the most beautiful expressions and types of old-time home life.
There was one satisfactory condition in the work, and that was the quality of the cottons and linens of which the patchwork was made.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "linens" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: linen; napery; textile
