brocade
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Like walking museum plaques, they glided through rooms in silk brocade gowns, panniers extending their hips to improbable widths, dispensing facts about furnishings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
Meanwhile local media praised von der Leyen's burgundy and gold brocade outfit -- a nod to Indian fashion.
From Barron's ● Jan. 28, 2026
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
A few brocade throw pillows lie atop the spread to complete the earth-tone look.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2024
He was standing with his arms out straight while they draped him with ermine, velvet, samite, brocade, and cloth of gold.
From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin
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
Velvet embedded with jewels, raw silk with hand-beaten sequin borders, silk brocades woven with gold.
From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2022
With golden brocades and rich navys, this is a swinging, stylish time.
From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2022
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
The majestic costumes of Catarina Copelli, invoking a rich brocaded world on the brink of disappearance, might be the real superstar.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
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 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
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