Sentence examples for coloured yarn from inspiring English sources

Use light coloured yarn to make learning easier.

Self-taught Dwight Mackintosh lived most of his life in mental institutions and painted animals with see-through skin; Judith Scott, an artist with Down's syndrome, completely covered objects in coloured yarn; a 15,000-page watercolour story about winged beings called 'Blengigomeneans' was secretly created by a janitor, Henry Darger.

After removing all open blossoms, three blossoms per plant still in bud were marked with coloured yarn.

You can also use gold string or coloured yarn, to have a different effect.

We are taken to Strasbourg at the oubreak of the second world war, where Ophuls escapes across enemy lines and seduces a German military assistant; but history is here being used merely as an excuse for some highly coloured yarn-spinning.

Vividly coloured yarns were used to weave into the rugs and blankets a broad range of decorative motifs based on commonplace modern objects; representations of automobiles, bottles, tomato cans, and airplanes, for example, found their way into the formerly dignified and restrained fabrics.

Try weaving differently coloured yarns for a rainbow effect.

The vertical colour junctions involve a discontinuity of the wefts, the coloured yarns that produce the design.

The developed system is equally useful for coloured yarns with proper background.

(3+) JE A little girl transforms her black and white world with the help of a box of coloured yarns in this eloquent modern fable.

In this technique, coloured yarns, which form the pattern, lie at slight angles from the horizontal, and herringbone effects are often created by changing the angle of alternate rows.