Sentence examples for french textiles from inspiring English sources

French textiles continued to advance in style and technique, and under Louis XVI (1774 93) design was refined, with Classical elements intermingled with the earlier floral patterns.

Theoretically, it's possible to try for a good view of the cavalry ceremony from one of the boutiques in the mall, but be prepared to buy an expensive Italian tie or French textiles, as boutique managers are not likely to take kindly to visitors pushing through the merchandise to get to the windows.

6. Daydream crib bedding is an adaptation of a 19th-century French textile.

Her mother was formerly the United States sales representative of Creations Robert Vernet, a French textile design company.

French textile producers set up workshops to make Indiennes and began a thriving business.

Cowtan & Tout's Sevigny damask (which Jayne uses on his sofa pillows) has the stylized flower pattern of a French textile from that period.

SLON's documentaries include "À Bientôt, J'espère," about a strike at a French textile factory, and "The Sixth Side of the Pentagon," about an antiwar march on the Pentagon.

"You go with something that's similar -- it might still be a two-colored woven French textile, but it's not the Japanese garden scene you're seeing on the cover of Pottery Barn".

His father works in South Kearny, N.J., as the chief financial officer of an embroidery thread manufacturing and distributing unit of Dollfus Mieg & Cie, a French textile manufacturer and crafts retailer.

French textile manufacturers' financial backing for the restoration of haute couture, which began with the firm of Boussac subsidising that Dior show, replaced democratic postwar fashion with elaborately undersupported, sculpturally shaped, ensembles.

These gentler yet elegantly feminine styles gradually spread throughout Europe and were finally accepted in France, although a 1783 portrait of Marie-Antoinette in such a gown angered the public, who claimed that her use of muslin a fabric not produced in France undermined the French textile industry.