Sentence examples similar to fingers thread from inspiring English sources

A woman with a shaved head and dressed in white undulates like a ghostly mirage on a mirrored floor, her fingers threaded with lights while a contortionist twists her body into pretzel shapes, a brass begging bowl in each hand.

Before that, thousands of lacemakers working mostly in Belgium and England spent long hours with aching fingers winding threads no bigger than spider trails around pins to create yards of intricate patterns that could be used for trim on collars and hems.

You could injure yourself if you accidentally step on the pedal while your fingers are threading the machine.

"It's part of this whole D.I.Y. thing," he said, fingering the threads.

Remember to thread your fingers through your toes, too.

Use your fingers to grasp the thread end sticking up from the loop.

This means that if you put some syrup between your 2 fingers and stretch, 1 thread is formed.

Use your fingers to position the thread leading into AA underneath the tip of the needle coming out at B.. A little line of thread should run parallel to the needle on its left side.

Her fingers found his hand, threaded through his fingers.

One called The Little Piecer tells the story of children toiling in the cotton mills and the toll this took on their health: "I often hurt my little hands and make my tender fingers bleed/When piecing threads and sopping flies and I thought was hard indeed/Oh master do you know the half that we endure to get you gold/Your heart might tremble for the day when that sad tale must be told".

The story embroidered here, he says, running a stained finger over the threads, is an ancient pagan one about a national god or hero who taught the people how to read the sky.