damask

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Across the landing, the Yellow Room also boasts expensive furnishings, especially the bed, which is covered in bright yellow damask, re-creating a bed Washington acquired in 1758.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 7, 2026

And by 09:00, patriarchs and cardinals will congregate in Saint Sebastian Chapel, in the basilica, wearing white damask miters.

From BBC • Apr. 22, 2025

Opie’s backdrop is a damask drapery in dark green, red’s vivifying complementary color.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 31, 2024

The current exhibit piece, Seattle-based Hungarian artist Timea Tihanyi’s “Like Love,” continues through the end of August, and features a deconstructed damask tablecloth adorned with hands in honor of Hungarian embroidery work.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 2, 2022

Many of the fabrics that we know of today came to Europe via the Muslims, and their names still show their origins: damask from Damascus, muslin from Mosul, gauzes from Gaza.

From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson