fictile
Example Sentences
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Impressions upon pottery represent a class of work utilized in the fictile arts.
From Prehistoric Textile Fabrics Of The United States, Derived From Impressions On Pottery Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-82, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1884, pages 393-425 by Holmes, William Henry
The study of the fictile art of the potter, even from the theoretical side alone, cannot fail to quicken and broaden education.
From Pottery, for Artists Craftsmen & Teachers by Cox, George J.
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
It was much used for the ornamentation of friezes and interiors, for the decoration of fictile vases, the borders of dresses, &c.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli by Various
The decorative and fictile art of the Parthians has received no inconsiderable amount of illustration from remains discovered, in the years 1850-1852, in Babylonia.
