Edward Bulwer Lytton had been spoiled by his mother, a monster of a woman who bequeathed him Knebworth, together with the certainty that he was cut from finer cloth than the rest of the world.
Cloth work weaving, dyeing, fulling prospered in regional centres such as Toulouse, with specialities in fine cloths concentrated in Artois and Flanders.
The finest cloths by Suberis are delicate voiles with appliqué motifs in cork whose natural colors underline the resemblance to autumn leaves.
Mr. Ross said that the finest cloths sell for $6,000 to $9,000, with one from the 1920's having sold for $12,000.
This was Ngangshi – a nickname taken from the fine cloths his family wove – the first Naga I had met in his own country.
So our designer went to the African market nearby and got all sorts of fine cloths and made simple new shapes with them.
Of symbolic status, as a riding animal in peace and war, and beast of burden, it featured in tapestries and paintings as a noble beast, often clad in armour or adorned with fine cloths.
Like the demand for fine cloths and leather goods, the demand for legal services will still exist, but new technologies and means of delivering these services will develop and displace the traditionally organized guilds that previously enjoyed a monopoly in this market.
He had been the son of a wealthy Gloucester landowner, and had been apprenticed as a London mercer, selling fine cloths to kings from Richard II to Henry V, and was also canny in lending money to the crown, ensuring his influence in the court of Richard II, who made him London's mayor.
