Bokhara rugs and embroideries are still to be purchased, and many of the weavings of the far East, although, alas, very few of the modern ones are of good colour.
Russian embroideries and woven stuffs, both old and new, are obtainable, and are good in colour, as are most of the embroideries and weavings of Eastern Europe and the East.
She hurried quickly home, fetched her roll of weavings and began to fasten the bright-colored pieces of cloth up under the roof.
She looked back towards the cottage, where the weavings glowed under the roof timbers, where the musicians spread merriment, and where everything she loved was, then she felt that she could not go into slavery.
Measurements and textures suggest that some weavings may have been mantles or other large wrappings.
For the first few moments it strikes you only as queer, the odd posturing of the garlanded, cross-legged figures, with their weavings and inter-weavings of arms and the rhythmic writhings of the glistening brown bodies.
They were wonderful weavings of aboriginal cloth, bordered with embroidery done in dyed or colored threads of flax, in designs as purely Eastern as can be found in any ancient or modern Eastern embroidery.
The pictures and tapestries, the weavings and embroideries, the carvings and metal work which the world is studying, belonged to the daily life of those past centuries.
Pictures and tapestries and exquisitely wrought metal work, weavings and embroideries, made priceless by costly materials and the thoughts and labor of artists, were reckoned not as a sign of wealth but as actual wealth.
Mrs. Holmes had chosen silks and bits ofweavings for her medium, using them as a painter uses colors upon his palette.
One of the most beautiful weavings the writer has ever seen from the southwest is that pictured in Figure 12, which is, however, only a small center portion of the beautiful sirape from Mexico.
However, so many impressions of weavings have been found on early pottery as to assure us that beautiful work of this kind was made in eastern, middle and southern United States.
The alternating sections have cloud bands, flowers, and nature symbols such as were copied into the Persian weavings after the invasion of Hulaku Khan, and appear in many of the high-school carpets of Persia of the 15th and 16th centuries.
Further illustration of this irregularity occurs widely throughout Chinese weavings in the seemingly “hit-or-miss” distribution of many colors, principally the blues in the border patterns.
No clever person can understand that until it is enacted under his eyes, and the cleverer he is, the less he will conceive it possible that his spider-weavings can fail to hold their fly.
As it was then known as Ganja or Gengha, the weavings of these nomads, which were marketed there, acquired that name.
For these reasons it would be only natural to expect that the weavings of Karabagh would show more of the Persian influence than those of any other part of Caucasia.
Here is woodland scenery not found in other parts of Caucasia, and it might be expected that the weavings of the people would have a striking individuality of their own; but they are little known as a distinct class.
Nevertheless, the Kazak weavings are of a most distinct type, to which even the smaller Kazakjes conform.
They would have the advantage over grass-weavings in durability, ease of handling and liveliness of effect.
The examples for fifteen weavings given in the paper on wool rugs are equally available in cotton.
Many of the cheaper Oriental weavings are put together in this way, and as many of the older house-looms will only weave a three-foot width, it is well to know that that need not prevent the production of rugs of considerable size.
In fact, it is in response to a demand that these articles upon home-weavings have been prepared, and a demand for technical instruction presupposes an interest in the result.
In practical England, the value of hand-weavings in linens has led to the introduction of small "parlour looms" from Sweden; and damasks of special designs are woven for special customers who appreciate their charm and worth.
Embroideries, in all countries but our own, are common and profitable home productions; and when we come to hand-weavings the variety is infinite.
And in truth, domestic weavings are sure of their market at paying prices, simply because they are what they are, hand products.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "weavings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
