Sentence examples for sheer cloth from inspiring English sources

The items on display include clothing made with pina, a sheer cloth made from pineapple fiber; other dyed cloth; and jewelry and accessories made of gold, silver and gourds.

For the lightest look, choose curtains made of lace or a sheer cloth.

The sheer cloths share a pink-and-yellow palette and a chevron pattern created by wrapping fine cotton threads around rolled cloth at spaced intervals during the dyeing process.

One day last week, when I was returning home, I saw that someone had covered the grave with a sheer orange cloth with a border of zari.

There he saw for the first time Okinawan textiles -- richly patterned and diaphanous silks as well as sheer lengths of cloth woven of ramie and bashofu, fibers from nettle and banana plants.

To ease the transition from seaside T's to businesslike long sleeves, designers are making lightweight shirts and blouses in cotton lawn, which is more sheer than oxford cloth and more formal than knit.

And there are plenty of those, including — to name but two — a Melanesian "leaf spirit" mask made from bark cloth as sheer as a spider's web and a 1935 deli meat slicer that doubles as abstract sculpture.

All night long, I stare at the ceiling of the tent through the sheer plastic; it frames the thick green cloth of the tent, all this green, an impressionist painting.

In fact, it takes in more territory than that: the furniture is covered in ikats from Indonesia and jewel-toned embroidered Suzani cloth from Uzbekistan, and the curtains are sheer Indian fabrics.

He talks particularly about the significance of Paul Cézanne and his successors, approving their concept of "sheer paint: a picture a matter of pigments upon a piece of cloth stretched on a frame".

Sheer fear, sheer terror.