brocade

Fabrics with sheen or brocade thread add luminescence in the darkened church setting, says Walicka Maimone: “Only so much lighting can come from the windows. We need to lift the palette and create the sparkle.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

The collection also featured brocade capes, puffer jackets and long wool coats with oversized fur cuffs.

From Barron's ● Jan. 21, 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

It was a little child’s dress of silk brocade stiff with seed-pearls, stained with salt, yellow with years.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin

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

The jacquards and brocades within the Max Mara camel colored universe “give you a kind of swashbuckling cavalier feel,” the designer said.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 23, 2023

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

From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2022

And the fabrics were all solid — no stripes, no prints, no brocades, no lace.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 2022

The armchairs and the lumpy sofa were upholstered in dusty brocades, threadbare at the arms: rose patterns on tan, acorns and oak leaves on mossy green.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

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

The look took a traditional tuxedo pant and paired it with a subtly flashy shawl-collar jacket in a brocaded midnight blue.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 22, 2018

He took out Fujiko’s silk kimono with its gold brocaded sash.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

"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

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

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