fictile
Example Sentences
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Dress was adorned with embroidered spots and Etruscan borders, and the ladies wore diadems, and tried to be as like as possible to the Greek women painted in fictile art.
From Needlework As Art by Alford, Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess
The fictile art is the offshoot and has within itself no predilection for decoration.
From A Study Of The Textile Art In Its Relation To The Development Of Form And Ornament Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884-'85, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1888, (pages 189-252) by Holmes, William Henry
The exterior is richly and peculiarly ornamented, to show the progress of fictile art.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" by Various
They take a high place among American fictile products for grace of form and beauty of decoration.
From Ancient art of the province of Chiriqui, Colombia Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884-1885, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1888, pages 3-188 by Holmes, William Henry
In the first none of the fictile ware was turned on the wheel or fire-baked.
