Sentence examples for coloured thread from inspiring English sources

I think I was expecting someone odder, but Nicole seems utterly lovely and normal, standing behind the counter, surrounded by brightly coloured thread.

Mark each end of last row with a coloured thread.

Dressed in a black abaya, her hair covered, she wears hardly any jewellery other than a childlike bracelet made of coloured thread with a single gold charm, a tiny Arabic coffeepot or dallah.

The labels are easy to attach – just take your coloured thread, place the embroidered label where you want it, and use a running stitch 5mm in from the edge to attach it to the cosy.

Each fruit was attached to a spool of coloured thread by passing the thread through the pericarp and knotting the end before suspending the spool on a turf staple such that it would spin freely when pulled.

Choose which fabric, coloured thread and decorations you want.

Gripper Axminster and Wilton Jacquard looms utilize a perforated card system to select the required combination of different coloured threads per row of pile.

About 1801 the French inventor Joseph-Marie Jacquard devised an automatic loom capable of producing complex patterns in textiles by controlling the motions of many shuttles of different coloured threads.

To add even more splash of colour use different coloured threads for sewing.

The variation of this rate for groups of pile threads is the basis for certain patterned effects resulting from the inclusion of both high and low pile areas or achieved by alternating two different coloured threads across the full width, emphasizing the pattern in one colour by hiding the other low-pile colour with higher adjacent loops.

Later in Egyptian civilization, a type of glass characterized by feathery or zigzag patterns of coloured threads on the surface of the glass vessel was made.