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Meanwhile local media praised von der Leyen's burgundy and gold brocade outfit -- a nod to Indian fashion.

From Barron's ● Jan. 28, 2026

The next was an elegant Audrey Hepburn spaghetti-strap white brocade.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2025

Best known for his use of lotus and peacock motifs, Bal used rich fabrics like velvet and brocade - his designs were elaborate, inspired by Indian grandeur and royalty.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2024

That brocade floral jacket with the giant, giant shoulder pads and the high collar and the brooch.

From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2023

At the council table, Queen Cersei shimmered in a cloth-of-gold gown slashed in burgundy velvet, while beside her Varys fussed and simpered in a lilac brocade.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

From rich woven silks, patterned brocades and intricate chintz to a range of less talked-about textiles, India's contribution to the global textile industry is unique.

From BBC ● Mar. 29, 2025

With golden brocades and rich navys, this is a swinging, stylish time.

From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2022

One thing every costume had in common: they were all solid colors; no prints, brocades or lace.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 27, 2022

Later cable knits met ribbed knits met angora on chunky cardigans, and tapestry fabrics he said were woven in Venice on looms invented by Leonardo da Vinci were spliced into velvet brocades and silk.

From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2020

Vaucanson not only made a mechanical duck, he also devised a machine that would automatically weave brocades.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Ringgold introduced quilting into her work in the 1970s after seeing brocaded Tibetan paintings called thangkas.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 13, 2024

Sets of ornate china dishes and brocaded chairs, which may have graced the parlors of long-gone bureaucrats or traders, are arranged on sidewalks alongside rusty fans and cooking pots, relinquished by poor families for pennies.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 2, 2021

The entire cast could behave as cold and stiffly as corpses, and as long as we're also wheeled through brocaded beauty and inspired grotesquery, this follow-up will have done its job.

From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2020

Her voice throughout is clear and informed, easily amused, psychologically nuanced and polished without being brocaded.

From New York Times ● May 18, 2018

The brocaded hangings beamed on the walls in soft folds—and, on the floor, a desperate and reprehensible luxury, there was a genuine carpet.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

"Royal India" may be the longest shadow of the imperial sunset, but the techniques this show celebrates--like tie-dying, brocading, hand embroidering and intricate weaving--are still practiced.

From Time Magazine Archive

The great Camellia trees gave lavishly of their waxen flowers, brocading the snow in crimson.

From The House of the Misty Star A Romance of Youth and Hope and Love in Old Japan by Frances Little

Tusser-silk, tus′ėr-silk, n. a kind of dark fawn-coloured silk, generally made without brocading or patterns.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various