Sentence examples for blue threads from inspiring English sources

His most recent compositions include "Chronicles: A Jewish Life and the Classical Piano" and "Chronicles II," which combine Torah lessons on subjects ranging from spiritual intention to the mysterious source of the dye for the blue threads woven into the traditional Jewish prayer shawl (that segment incorporating strains from Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue").

"It was like cutting the blue threads out of a Chanel suit," she said.

Mr. Bush's yellow brocade sofas have been replaced with two custom-made couches of brown cotton that looks like velvet, woven with red, white and blue threads.

The 1983 "Cloud Sculpture," a suspended environment made of thousands of knotted blue threads, was three times as large, an ethereal Niagara.

Here are stars packed like golden sand, gas combed in delicate blue threads, piled into burgundy thunderheads and carved into sinuous rilles and ribbons, and galaxies clotted with star clusters dancing like spiders on the ceiling.

Vita Sackville-West, the writer and gardener extraordinaire, grew up at Knole in Kent, a house that resembled "a medieval village with its square turrets and its grey walls, its hundred chimneys sending blue threads up into the air".

A Spool of Blue Thread is published by Chatto, £18.99.

A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler (Chatto).

A Spool of Blue Thread, her 20th, is no exception.

A Spool of Blue Thread, by Anne Tyler (Knopf).

A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler (US) Chatto & Windus.