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The collection also featured brocade capes, puffer jackets and long wool coats with oversized fur cuffs.

From Barron's ● Jan. 21, 2026

Vestments made of intricate floral brocade in 1741, given by Louis XV, enrich the walls.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 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

A few brocade throw pillows lie atop the spread to complete the earth-tone look.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2024

The one-armed smith had left few personal effects: the cup, six pennies and a copper star, a niello brooch with a broken clasp, a musty brocade doublet that bore the stag of Storm’s End.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

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

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

From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2022

One thing every costume had in common: they were all solid colors; no prints, brocades or lace.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 27, 2022

And the fabrics were all solid — no stripes, no prints, no brocades, no lace.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 2022

Furnished in elaborate velvets, silks, and brocades, it’s a riot of scarlet and deep blues and greens, everything rich and dark, like overripe fruit.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

Working with her brother-in-law, Tomás de los Arcos, who fabricated the brocaded ecclesiastical garments incised with gold, Luisa Roldán made a startlingly lifelike, hyperreal figure of the preaching saint Ginés de la Jara.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2022

There are extravagant mansions, brocaded costumes and magnificent vistas.

From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2022

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

“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

And why should she care — a rude, freckle faced sailor who took more notice of a strip of canvas than of a brocaded gown?

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare

"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