Sentence examples for scrolling patterns from inspiring English sources

But not, it seemed, just the scrolling patterns with which the designer embellished dresses that might be shown under a new favorite of the fashion season: the narrow cape.

Scrolling patterns of flowers and leaves filled with geometric filling stitches are characteristic of blackwork from the 1540s through 1590s, and similar patterns worked in coloured silks appear from the 1560s, outlined in backstitch and filled with detached buttonhole stitch.

Outer clothing and furnishings of woven silk brocades and velvets were ornamented with gold and silver embroidery in linear or scrolling patterns, applied bobbin lace and passementerie, and small jewels.

The ultimate in distressed magnificence was a piece with part of a word from the hand of a great calligrapher that stands out against a scrolling pattern designed by another master excelling in the art of illumination.

The leather is elaborately tooled with scrolling foliage patterns.

These jackets usually featured scrolling floral patterns worked in a multiplicity of stitches.

Similarly, a late-18th- or early-19th-century New Mexican embroidered wool bed covering was woven with floral elements, including seven large C-scroll patterns, which resemble cotton or calico fabrics imported to New Mexico from East India.

In the final days before the new ceiling was installed, its curlicues and scroll patterns -- painted on canvas after stencils of the original ceiling were made -- dominated much of the studio's floor and wall space.

In many parts of Southeast Asia, including Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar, Sumatra, and Indonesia, designs originally based upon Indian flowering-scroll patterns can be found in architecture, textiles, theatre costumes, musical instruments, and wooden utensils, all efflorescing with extravagant curling ornament.

The rectilinear patterns were transmitted from woven materials to Luoyang bronze mirrors and appeared in paintings on both lacquer and silk; and the curvilinear scroll patterns, which are not natural to weaving, were probably adapted for embroidery from the rhythmic conventions of lacquer painting, which also provided scroll motifs for inlaid bronzes and paintings on silk.

The former occur within scenes and were rare before about 1913; the latter typically introduce scenes and began to appear incrementally in about 1901, often with text surrounded by artistically illustrated scroll patterns.