Sentence examples for English prints from inspiring English sources

It's a room napped with cream-colored velvet and colonized by the antique boxes and slender gilt-framed English prints that make up the vocabulary of a certain kind of uptown Manhattan apartment.

In particular Russell Sage, reworking antique table linens and vintage pieces and mixing these with new fabric, gave an imaginative and thought-provoking show, while Jessica Ogden's blend of kimono dressing and old-fashioned English prints, enthusiastically staged as a mini one-room play, was original and hugely enjoyable.

Completed in 1926, the house was designed as a showcase for du Pont's important collection of Colonial antiques, including an imposing late-18th-century wing chair, English prints, a hooked rug and Staffordshire pottery lent to the exhibition by the Winterthur, which du Pont established as a center for the display and study of American decorative arts.

Located in a landmark 1920s building on the Upper East Side, the Lowell captures the essence of an elegant country house with a blend of English prints, floral fabrics and Chinese porcelains that surprisingly works.

At Zuber & Cie .6. "Shepherd and Sheep," an 18th-century English "print room" design by John Baptist Jackson, is hand-printed by Cole & Son in London and can be custom ordered through Lee Jofa.

The catalogue began with 1475 because that's when English printing began.

The fox epic was imported into England by William Caxton, the man who set up the first English printing press.

THE little diner in Mongkok, Hong Kong, didn't have a word or even a letter of English printed on any of the signs in the window.

Small wonder, then, that several millennia of patriarchy, and more than 500 years of English print culture, should feel compelled to quash and shape girls so heavy-handedly.

The text in almost all the posters was Chinese, but one agency, Macao South China Travel, had some English print in the window, too, so I went in to inquire.

English printed cottons of similar subjects (such as those of Old Ford, c. 1760 80) had a parallel development and achieved standards as high as Jouy; the term toile de Jouy has come to be used loosely for the Jouy type of printed cottons produced in England and at other French factories.