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bedcover
noun
A decorative cover for a bed; a bedspread or counterpane
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Crease up "Pick a bedcover that looks as pretty rumpled as it does smoothed down," says Judith Wilson.
To look at their catalogue is to desire to live in a rustic farmhouse snuggled up in a pair of cashmere socks under a striped woollen bedcover.
The British model Stella Tennant, who has been featured in many Burberry ads, and who, for a time, worked as a consultant for the company, used to bring in bits of country-house detritus — a floral-print bedcover, for instance, that her mother had sewn — that she thought Bailey might incorporate into his designs.
A floral wedding coverlet from Mexico, features Chinese silk and European dyes; a sumptuous goldenrod bedcover, probably Italian, incorporates Bengali hunting motifs; a monumental tapestry, depicting the abduction of Helen in riotous blue and gold, was made in China for the Portuguese market.
She threw the bedcover off, her feet, her underarms clammy with sweat.
But to understand the strange beauty of a hat knitted by religious women who created tiny slits for each apostle, a wool and silk coat from a farmer's wife or a skirt that started its life as a bedcover and has the sewing imprint of different generations, seek out Susanne Bisovsky (bisovsky.com), who has built a trove of clothes, everything from the ancient to the modern.
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The first bedcovers were probably of fur.
It has long been used for clothing in China, the Middle East, North Africa, and the colder areas of Europe but is now primarily associated with the construction of bedcovers and wall hangings.
They are most often used as bedcovers or wall hangings.
In northern Europe, where the climate is often harsh…this technique offered warmth as well as protection, and it was rapidly extended to bedcovers and various forms of clothing".
The material was called qalamkārī ("brushwork") because of the technique employed in executing it and was chiefly made into prayer carpets, hangings, coverlets, and bedcovers.
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