Babylon, of which Baghdad was the representative, was famous for its variegated textures in very early days.
NOTE 1] On that day also all the people of all the provinces and governments and kingdoms and countries that own allegiance to the Kaan bring him great presents of gold and silver, and pearls and gems, and rich textures of divers kinds.
Our cut illustrates the textures figured with animals, already noticed at p.
There appears to have been little or no interest in varying the textures by employing yarns of different weights, although the usual irregularities to be noted in lengths of hand-spun yarns are also evident in these.
Smooth textures and the uniformly good edges indicate that the weaving yarns were of the high quality we have learned to expect in the ancient cloths.
Measurements and textures suggest that some weavings may have been mantles or other large wrappings.
Textures in plate 4,a, c are comparable to those in which maximum congestion occurs.
These lavas have groundmasstextures that vary from almost holo-crystalline to glassy.
The different textures of these lavas are doubtless expressive primarily of diversity in the physical conditions of consolidation, but also in part of variations in chemical composition.
The textures of shells are described as pearl, fibrous, horny, and some are glassy and translucent.
Their textures are so close that they take a surface and polish almost like enamel.
All the members of the family live huddled together in the same room, on mats spread upon the ground; chiefs, alone, reposing upon similar textures stretched on frames.
In modern European natural history drawings of birds and animals, we often lose this bold graphic sense of character in the general aspect, while small superficial details of plumage and textures are carefully attended to.
Bewick and his school developed the woodcut from the pictorial point of view, and with the object of demonstrating the capacity of the wood for rendering certain fine textures and tones as against steel and copper.
Some such small ratio is what we might have expected in the antecedent probabilities, arising out of the varying degrees of severity of smallpox and the various textures of the human skin.
Nevertheless we were constantly met with the want of morbid appearances anywhere, unless slight signs of vascular congestion in various membranous textures be considered such[351].
They succeed in reducing the harsh filaments of the palm-tree, known by the name of abaca, to such a degree of fineness, that they afterwards convert them into textures equal to the best muslins of Bengal.
Lithographic papers of different textures are made for this purpose, but almost any paper will do, provided the drawing is done with the special lithographic chalk.
The play of different qualities and textures in the masses that go to form a picture must be appreciated at first hand, and little can be written about it.
Since that time variants of the foregoing styles of pattern and textures have been used according to the bent of fashion in favour of simple or complex ornamentation, or of stiff, compact or filmy textures.
While his lack of larger vision held him down as an artist, it contributed to his feeling for natural textures and story-telling detail.
In his hands wood engraving underwent a special transformation; it became a means for rendering textures and tonal values.
Tones and textures approaching the scale of copper plate engraving could be created, except, of course, that the lines were white and the impressions not so brilliant.
His blocks were conceived as original engravings, not as imitations of tones and textures created in another medium.
When first introduced it ranked among the best and most elegant silk and wool textures manufactured.
A trade term of somewhat loose application, being used indiscriminately to describe a great variety of textures so constructed or finished as to present a velvet-like surface.
As strong soap will spoil some colors and textures it is necessary to apply a solvent when a delicate fabric is stained.
Compare three plain woven crimson textures made of silk, wool, and cotton respectively.
This may be noticed in the design last mentioned, in which the textures are extremely well rendered, as well as in the poster design by Mr. Bradley for the Chap-Book, just referred to.
Some examples of shingle and slate textures are illustrated by Fig.
Remark, also, how the textures of the walls and roof and sky are obtained.
Observe the variety of textures in the drawing of the sculptor by Dantan, Fig.
The color is brilliant and the textures are expressed with wonderful skill.
A great variety of textures may be obtained by means of varied patterns without affecting the breadth of the color-scheme.
Because the vibrations caused by the sounds of artillery are so violent that they overpower the mechanism of the ear, and frequently rupture the connection of the fine nervous filaments with the textures through which they spread.
Because the fluids and vessels of the body are in some degree transparent, and the thin textures of the sides of the fingers allows the light to pass, and shows the beautiful crimson colour of the blood.
Even in respect of the textures which women choose for their clothes, there are collective changes of mood and mode to be noticed.
Over her head the Mussulman lady wears a shawl or mantilla, less long than her Hindu sister’s mantle, which is made of the finest textures and is dyed in the most delicate of colours.
We shall be led to vary them in seeking to express other characteristics, such as textures and surfaces.
In the majority of cases, the new substances or minerals are clearly introduced from the igneous source, replacing the wall rock volume for volume so precisely that such original textures and structures as bedding are not destroyed.
Some agents are more readily absorbed than others; whilst some textures permit of absorption taking place more quickly through them than other tissues.
At the same time a ligature is to be placed around the limb, above the wound; or if this be impossible, from its situation, the textures around are to be compressed.
These two Liquors, being of odd Textures in reference to each other, their conjunction and distillation made them exhibite these Phænomena: vid.
I can only describe it as a soft, spongy tumour, rising from the bottom of the eye, involving all the textures of that organ, so as to render them scarcely recognizable, and bleeding on the slightest touch.
To obviate this inconvenience, as well as to render the remembrance of the remedies an easy matter, I have adopted the above arrangement, in which each disease is placed opposite the textures it invades.
This type of knitting machine has an extensive range of patterns and textures which can be obtained and amongst the first variations possible are those which result from an alteration of the needle arrangement.
The rib stitch is also an indispensable foundation of a number of textures which weigh much heavier than the plain, as it enables a greater weight of yarn to be inserted and the fabric is thereby increased greatly in bulk.
The ordinary plain knitted loop in which the bulk of textures is worked consists really of a weft structure, that is, the yarns run predominantly crosswise, and are intersected with the preceding loops in the manner already described.
For any particular type of machine he requires to instal a series varying in the sett or gauge of the needles if a representative range of texturessuitable for the changing seasons has to be devised.
This is an excellent example of drawing--and of treatment of textures and surfaces--for process reproduction.
This careful drawing, from the painting by Mr. Boughton, in the Royal Academy, reproduced by the Dawson process, is interesting for variety of treatment and indication of textures in pen and ink.
At the same time, Mr. Manton's indication of surfaces andtextures by process are both interesting and valuable.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "textures" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
