doily

On a lace vintage doily, Simpson embroidered the Japanese proverb “Fall seven times, stand up eight,” a fitting metaphor for her metamorphosis as an artist.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2025

Kaur's exhibition includes family photos, an Axminster carpet, a vintage car covered in a giant doily and kinetic handbells.

From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2024

Chennai Hoppers serves the dish, distinguished by its soft center and edges like a doily, with a mild curry, cardamom-flavored milk and the option of an egg on top.

From Washington Post ● May 27, 2021

When the novel begins, in nineteen-sixties England, she is a young homemaker with the personality of a lace doily: decorous, brittle, self-consciously antiquated.

From The New Yorker ● May 11, 2019

She’d placed a folded brown afghan at the foot of her narrow bed and a doily on the nightstand.

From "It All Comes Down to This" by Karen English

While live on the show, James produced "two little doilies", which he took as keepsakes from the day.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

She filled the place with antiques and doilies and Victorian-era wedding photos — some of which she bought on EBay — with unsmiling brides and grooms.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2023

Valeria visits her mother, who sits in judgmental silence, crocheting doilies and coasters and place mats.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 2, 2023

It is doilies, snails, and DIY fairy spoons crafted from seashells.

From Salon ● Dec. 27, 2022

They wore white shirts and little round doilies on their heads.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago