Sophie Mallebranche, winner of an award for textile design at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair in May, creates lustrous woven fabrics by weaving metallic threads -- copper, stainless steel, bronze or brass -- with linen, silk or silicone fibers.
Order skate at SakaMai, and what arrives is not a frond of delicate flesh but a stack of broken wings, still threaded with cartilage and lustrous as capiz shells.
He has used her lustrous silks as canvases for intricate gold- and silver-thread embroidery, a nearly extinct royal art he learned growing up in court.
INSIDE Hermès's soaring, light-filled atelier in the Pantin suburb of Paris, workers take fine cuts of leather, alligator and python skins and transform them with meticulous detail, waxing threads and buffing hides with an agate stone into subtle matte finishes or high, lustrous shines.
Most cotton threads are mercerized, a coating that lets the dye take more easily and results in a lustrous appearance.
IF ever a building threaded itself into the hallowed history of New York City, it is the red brick town house at 41 Charlton Street, framed by lustrous wrought-iron railings topped with little pineapples, a symbol of hospitality.
Revlon Red Super Lustrous Lipstick, $7.
Walls are cream, accents a lustrous black.
Your hair is lustrous yet thinning.
