bearings

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I think the difficulty for the upper classes was finding the weight of fabric that they would have used in those days, and the lusciousness and embroidery and beadings.

From Time • Feb. 19, 2012

He was in a large low room panelled round its sides, the panels painted white, the beadings picked out in crimson.

From House of Torment A Tale of the Remarkable Adventures of Mr. John Commendone, Gentleman to King Phillip II of Spain at the English Court by Gull, Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger

Small handles, beadings, mouldings, &c. are formed by means of an iron cylinder, having its bottom perforated so as to mould the clay, as it passes through, into the required figure.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 550, June 2, 1832 by Various

The beadings of the fasciae are enriched with the designs commonly known as 'rope,' 'bead-and-reel,' 'egg-and-dart,' and again 'bead-and-reel.'

From Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture by Van Millingen, Alexander

The door was divided into eight small panels with elaborate beadings, and over it was a delicate fanlight—one of about a score in Bursley—to remind the observer of a lost elegance.

From Helen with the High Hand (2nd ed.) by Bennett, Arnold