Passing under the archway into the Ball Room, you step immediately on to a very beautiful parquetry floor, and get a clear view of the pretty lawn and terraces, from windows facing--windows handsomely curtained in cream and gold.
The marble mantels in this suite of rooms are also a special feature, so beautifully are they carved; also you will note the graceful crystal chandeliers and parquetry floors.
Most of the makers nail thin parquetry work through from the surface and fill the nail holes with putty, although in some cases blind nailing is used.
The design does not have the merit of belonging distinctively to the material in all cases, and might just as well be applied to wood parquetry as stone.
The sinnet work and the parquetry of split bamboo, which comprise the highest handicraft of the present-day islander, could hardly be classed with the exceedingly beautiful work upon the blade.
The Waif seemed to make her way over a floor of beautiful parquetry which Mother Nature had been constructing for centuries.
A small mountain of dust was growing on the terrace, and as beneath brush and rag the colors of wall and parquetry stood forth, her face became one shiny expanse of ebony satisfaction.
The floor, where his footprints had disturbed the even gray film of dust, was of fine close parquetry and had been generously strewn everywhere with a mica-like powder.
These strictures on the tenth gift parquetrybring us naturally to the criticisms lately made by eminent authorities upon some of the Froebel materials.
The parquetry of the seventh gift lends an added grace to cooperative work, for the children can now combine all their material in one form to decorate the room, or perhaps to send as a gift to an absent playmate.
We can easily see how these same patterns may be further utilized as designs for inlaid tiles, orparquetry floors.
It is also for you to say whether the finished floor, if you have no carpets, shall consist simply of plain narrow boards or be more expensively laid in parquetry designs.
We might have a few parquetry floors, but for most of the rooms plain narrow strips, with a pretty border, will be good enough.
Geometric designs are mainly used as in parquetry floors.
Teniers figure subject, parquetry and inlays of flowers round the sides, corner mounts, &c.
Inlays of woods of the same colour are termed parquetry work in contradistinction to marquetry, which is in different colour.
Oil-cloth effects may be obtained by pasting on floors or walls designs made with the kindergarten parquetry papers.
Have child observe oilcloth designs and then with kindergarten parquetry papers try to make similar ones for doll-house.
The afternoon sun fell aslant the black oak parquetry where sat her Grace of Ellswold, Lady Constance and Mistress Penwick, engaged with limning and embroidery.
They traversed the long banquet-hall and were upon the threshold of a carved and lofty doorway, when Janet espied upon the parquetry a cobweb bit of lace protruding from beneath the tapestry of a chair.
With my tendency to forty winks at odd moments, I think it is scarcely safe to have every room covered with oak parquetry and rugs that slip about.
The additional cost for parquetry is not formidable in a moderate-sized hall.
But if the hall be of the medium or generous size, parquetry will be found more approvable if the expense can be afforded.
I try to show my gratitude, but the parquetry of a court is very slippery.
Molly, who was not accustomed to the beautiful parquetry which covered the floor, found herself slipping about as if on ice.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "parquetry" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: check; checkerboard; drapery; harlequin; mosaic; parquet; patchwork; plaid; tartan; tessera
