1113 examples of fabrics in sentences

And the dresses, both of women and men, were beautiful in form and color, made in the finest fabrics, and affording delightful combinations to the eye.

Running up a few steps into a warehouse stored with neat packages of dress goods, he encountered a couple of warehousemen engaged in sorting and classifying a consignment of fabrics just arrived from Bradford.

His cunning is not small in architecture, for he builds strange fabrics in paste, towers and castles, which are offered to the assault of valiant teeth, and like Darius' palace in one banquet demolished.

Even the colossal fabrics of Ancient Egypt dwindle before this superhuman masonry.

There is also an extensive display of European fabrics, as the eastern provinces of Asiatic Turkey, as far as Baghdad, are supplied entirely from Aleppo and Trebizond.

Only by miraculous compression of ribs, handles, and fabrics was space contrived in the basement cubbyhole for Annie Oombrella to squeeze in.

Lastly, there were rich stores of laces, muslins, silks, satins, velvets and like cherished fabrics, destined to be used in exchange for Mexican land-grants in that far land to which we were bound.

the work done on best Lock-Stitch machines, beautiful | | | | BUTTON AND EYELET HOLES | | | | in all fabrics.

The manufacturing of silk, woolen, and linen fabrics has flourished here since the end of the thirteenth century.

16,758,726 Producing textile fabrics 11,214,158 Personal, household and sanitary 10,717,500 Rent payers (tenants)

But the most remarkable of his extravagant freaks was a rug and two pillow covers of pearls, probably the greatest marvel of all fabrics that were ever woven since the world was made.

We were advised that Baroda is the best place in India to study the native arts and fabrics.

No ballroom belle ever was enveloped by brighter tinted fabrics than the silks, satins, brocades and velvets that were worn by the dignified Hindu gentlemen at this wedding, and their jewels were such as our richest women wear.

Where his predecessor attracted priests and scholars he brought artists, clever craftsmen, skilled mechanics and artisans in gold, silver, brass and clay; weavers of costly fabrics with genius to design and skill to execute.

It is a pity that His Highness did not allow his own taste to prevail, and use nothing but native furniture and fabrics.

The merchants of Genoa sent their ships to Constantinople and the ports of the Black Sea, where they took on board the rich fabrics and spices which by boats and by caravans had come up the valley of the Euphrates and the Tigris from the Persian Gulf.

Wherefore rejoice, ye Continentals, and be thankful, and visit the Nassauese, bringing beef, butter, and beauty,bringing a few French muslins to replace the coarse English fabrics, and buxom Irish girls to outwork the idle negro women,bringing new books, newspapers, and periodicals,bringing the Yankee lecturer, all expenses paid, and his drink found him.

"If this writer," says Mr. Wilson, "had really been acquainted with the tribes of the table-land, he must have known that the fibres of the maguey were, among them, substitutes for that article, and are even now used at the city of Mexico in the manufacture of some fine fabrics.

R95050, 13May52, The Singer Manufacturing Co. (PWH) SINGER MANUFACTURING COMPANY. Instructions for using and adjusting Singer sewing machines 99W75, 99W76, 99W77, 99W79, and 99W95, for making buttonholes in fabrics, by Archibald Tregaskis.

JOHNSON, GEORGE H. Textile fabrics, their selection and care from the standpoint of use, wear, and launderability.

for two-line lock stitching in fabrics.

SAMPSON, E. A. Zelan durable repellent finish for fabrics.

SEE Textile fabrics.

A great variety of fabrics were produced: "striped woolen, wool plaided, cotton striped, linen, wool-birdseye, cotton filled with wool, linsey, M's and O's, cotton Indian dimity, cotton jump stripe, linen filled with tow, cotton striped with silk, Roman M., janes twilled, huccabac, broadcloth, counter-pain, birdseye diaper, Kirsey wool, barragon, fustian, bed-ticking, herring-box, and shalloon.

At Ypres, the chief centre of cloth fabrics, the population increased so rapidly that, in 1247, the sheriffs prayed Pope Innocent IV.

1113 examples of  fabrics  in sentences