Sentence examples for colour silk from inspiring English sources

He made a considerable number of prints, including colour silk screens.

The dye under investigation, Malachite green is used to colour silk, leather and paper.

As part of Cindy's Electro Colour series, an everyday speaker and toaster conduct water electrolysis, changing the pH levels in the H20 to manipulate red cabbage dyes (which work as a pH indicator) and colour silk fabrics.

He would block up a palate of colour, silk-screen on top of it in black, and finish each work individually with long brushy paint strokes.

"Women wear at their ears for pendants as great wonders, glass bobs with narrow necks as these glasses have tails, and yet it is filled with several colours silks and coarse black cotton-wool, which to my sense is more difficult to put into these glass pendants, than liquor into these glass guns".

They knew they needed female Golden Orb-Weaver spiders, commonly found in Madagascar and named after the unique saffron colour of their silk and exquisite webs.

Bombazine, also spelled Bombasine, textile, usually black in colour, with a silk warp and worsted weft, or filling, woven in either plain or twill weave.

In prudish Victorian England they were called the "he-she ladies" by the penny magazines and the newspapers that slavishly delivered every detail they could of their scandalous appearance, from the colour of their silk frocks to the frills on their handkerchiefs – and the stubble on their chins.

We found that both spider body colour and web silk can lure insect prey at night.

The colour of his silks will remain irrelevant to anyone tempted by odds of 16-1 for the Investec Derby, so long as his trainer remains the same.

The Everyman Library, which is coming up to the 20th anniversary of its modern relaunch, makes much of its books' elegant two-colour case stamping, silk ribbon markers and "European-style" half-round spines.