Sentence examples for purple threads from inspiring English sources

They were usually decorated with light-coloured threads on a dark, usually blue, ground (familiar from the Egyptian 18th dynasty), but a notable variation was displayed in pieces decorated with dark purple threads on a white ground.

When the cloth is purple, the purple threads in the sash seem to light up.

All your SMS conversations will then appear in Messenger as purple threads, alongside your blue Facebook chats.

Starting today in most countries, users can open Messenger for Android, go to their settings, select "SMS" and turn on "Default SMS App". All your SMS conversations will then appear in Messenger as purple threads, alongside your blue Facebook chats.

I recognized the shade of her ash brown eyebrows and the faint purple thread veins crisscrossing her cheeks.

No dark cotton can be found, so the black dress is hastily stitched up with bright purple thread, which preserves Thornberry's modesty but looks a little surprising.

That was the tail end of a purple thread that ran back to those Crimean dispatches about gallant British troops pouring fire on the terrible enemy.

And then he added, "Of course all this is foreshadowed and prefigured in my books... a great deal of it is hidden away in the note of doom that like a purple thread runs through the texture of Dorian Gray".

At the Ock Pop Tok Living Crafts Centre in Ban Saylom, Laos, a young weaver from the Katu tribe slid a spool of bright purple thread back and forth through a huge and creaking wooden loom.

Purple thread from a woollen tapestry depicting an eight-pointed star.

It was white with purple ribbons threaded through.