Sentence examples for silk covering from inspiring English sources

So as the violin maker stood by, Mr. Drapeau removed the 279-year-old Stradivarius from its white silk covering, and Mr. Oliveira played a pearly passage on it.

The relationship between this cheerfully feisty woman, shaking her shoulders and punching the air, and her sleepy love god is alchemical; when you pull his raw silk covering away from her brass, the metal has turned to gold.

Why it needs recovering is a complete mystery, for when the workers begin their job they find the umbrella has never been unfurled; the silk covering is as tightly wrapped as when it left the shop and the folds are the same.

For his first trip to the Vatican, Mr. Obama was joined by his wife, Michelle, and their two daughters, Malia, 11, and Sasha, 8, all three of whom wore black dresses and black silk veils covering their hair.

While the sight of a head scarf in an upscale Istanbul shopping mall would have raised eyebrows a decade ago, women in designer scarves now dominate crowds in some of the glitziest malls of the city, and even the sight of a woman in silk head covering and sunglasses at the wheel of a luxury sport-utility vehicle has become commonplace in Istanbul and elsewhere.

As a long-time Athelstan watcher (I'm writing a book on him), I confess I almost felt my eyes prickle when I saw the startling image of the open lead coffin: an ivory silk shroud covering (or at least so I imagined with narrowed eyes) an almost discernible human shape.

Tawfiq Canaan, a researcher of Palestinian popular heritage, described the golden embroidered writing on the red silk cloth covering the tomb as reading, "This is the tomb of prophet Lut, peace be upon him".

The firm's products on view at the Morris Gallery include a silk damask wall covering commissioned by Queen Victoria for St James's Palace, Morris's first "Trellis" wallpaper, and stained glass for churches.

Silk fabrics I go to the south of India every Christmas for a holiday and I tend to bring back lots of silks and fabrics for covering sculptures.

The silk wall coverings and (of course) Christopher Hyland window treatments come with the apartment, as do most of the light fixtures.

Typically, the bedroom of the queen has gilt boiserie and mirror frames; embroidered silk wall coverings; wall and ceiling paintings; chandeliers; and luxurious furnishings.