Sentence examples for length of cloth from inspiring English sources

A loose, unbuttoned length of cloth, the chador needs constant attention.

Rani Moorthy's Whose Sari Now? considers the different meanings of that length of cloth at West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds.

"Cut is everything," she said, leaning over the cutting out table in her atelier, her scissors poised above a length of cloth mapped with chalk guidelines.

Over the loincloths Egyptians wore tunics, simply shaped garments made by folding a length of cloth in half, sewing up the sides, leaving room for armholes and cutting an opening at the seam for the head.

(The other main component of Highland dress, as the traditional male garb of Scotland is called, is the plaid, which is a rectangular length of cloth worn over the left shoulder).

She had cut the pattern from her own design — there was a matching knee-length pencil skirt — then pinned the paper shapes onto the length of cloth, arranging and rearranging them like pieces of a puzzle to make them fit with minimum waste.

Indonesia's foremost batik designer is Iwan Tirta, who sells both clothes and lengths of cloth from several Indonesian islands at two shops: 25 Jalan Panarukan in the Menteng neighborhood and on the lobby floor of the Borobudur Hotel.

Finger, ancient and medieval measure of 1/8yard, or 4 1/2incmes (11.4 cm), used primarily to measure lengths of cloth.

Some passengers stood on the deck, shaded by striped lengths of cloth, after the ship, the MV Sun Sea, pulled in.

Subsequently in the 17th century two lengths of cloth began to be worn for these purposes, and the kilt and plaid thus came to be separate garments.

When erected, it consists of a low pyramid, formed by a short, diagonally set pole at either end supporting two lengths of cloth joined together at the top and pegged into the ground at the bottom.