In the past, original drawings were semi-transparent linen or vellum materials on which they drew with ink or lead pencils.
The artist draws the patterns for sleeves and bodices, or basic units of clothing design, on linen, which she then covers with layers of encaustic — pigment mixed with melted wax.
The textile was supported on new linen fabric which was stretched on a metal frame.
Instead, he began erecting more barracks for the coming winter while trying to rely less on linen tents, which were more porous.
Like the chairs and the mismatched antique china on which dinner was served, the linens were all different, collected piece by piece.
She was standing in front of a rack on which an appealing and patriotic-looking Michael Kors linen jacket ($159.50) hung.
If I could have one work from the show, to satisfy my somewhat equivocal appetite for Rymanism, it would be the delicately befuddling "Arista" (1968), a six-foot-square painting on unstretched linen, which is stapled to the wall and abutted, on the wall, by ruled lines in blue chalk.
The bed on which Manet's prostitute reclines is a glittering array of complicated swags of off-white linen.
"In earlier eras they also went on the linen, which became a brittle shell.
In her earlier art, Douglas used inks and water-based media on raw linen, which resulted in delicately nuanced, mostly monochromatic works.
