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Meanwhile local media praised von der Leyen's burgundy and gold brocade outfit -- a nod to Indian fashion.

From Barron's ● Jan. 28, 2026

The next was an elegant Audrey Hepburn spaghetti-strap white brocade.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2025

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

That brocade floral jacket with the giant, giant shoulder pads and the high collar and the brooch.

From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2023

She now carried with her a brocade pouch suspended from a red satin cord.

From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson

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

With golden brocades and rich navys, this is a swinging, stylish time.

From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2022

Later cable knits met ribbed knits met angora on chunky cardigans, and tapestry fabrics he said were woven in Venice on looms invented by Leonardo da Vinci were spliced into velvet brocades and silk.

From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2020

The armchairs and the lumpy sofa were upholstered in dusty brocades, threadbare at the arms: rose patterns on tan, acorns and oak leaves on mossy green.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

The woman depicted here was likely aristocratic, Ng said, judging by her pink dress brocaded in silver-gilt and silver-wound thread, white neck ruff and fine jewelry.

From New York Times ● Jan. 6, 2023

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 look took a traditional tuxedo pant and paired it with a subtly flashy shawl-collar jacket in a brocaded midnight blue.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 22, 2018

“There was none of this,” he said, motioning toward finely brocaded upholstery, plush silks and a mantelpiece crowded with photographs of world leaders the king had known.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 13, 2016

I saw military washerwomen dressed in fine silk waistcoats for men, brocaded with water-stains and grime.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

"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