Sentence examples for silk gauze from inspiring English sources
Skilled artisans taught the weaving of cotton and silk gauze.
He offered a lot of layering -- a bias-cut silk T-shirt under a long silk gauze dress of no exceptional shape.
Helmut Lang's semi-sheer silk gauze shirts for fall in black, gray and cream are perfect for displaying a pancake stomach and the type of protruding ribs found in Schiele's self-portraits.
A strikingly beautiful Edo period kosode, or summer robe, is made of ethereal silk gauze, but its burgundy hue and the long, dewy grasses that seem to sprout from its hem augur cooler weather.
She also offers silk comforters in bonbon shades of lavender and cream ($300, queen size); brilliant orange and yellow Indian cotton cafe-table umbrellas, glittering with tiny sewn-in mirrors ($25); and transparent silk gauze scarves ($75).
The screen is usually made of fine but strong silk gauze (available in different mesh sizes) but can also be made of synthetic gauzes (nylon, tergal) or of wire gauze (phosphor bronze, stainless steel, nickel) or of combinations (nylon copper, nylon bronze).
The wealthy of Ming China delighted in beauty – cloudlike silk gauzes, translucent porcelains, ornate lacquerwork, gorgeous filigree – while famine periodically reduced subsistence farmers to eating earth and each other.
All the treasures of land and sea, such as thin silks, gauzes, gold, silver, jewels, crafts, arts, and rich and great merchants are there [and]... merchantmen and junks from Henan, Hebei, and Fujian gather like clouds.
The kimonos are made from cotton, banana-bark cloth and three kinds of silk: crepe, gauze and a nubby Tsumugi-weave.
Newly arrived in London, she breathlessly describes a morning spent choosing "silks, caps, gauzes, and so forth".
The cloth is first laid on a printing table, gummed in position or pinned to a back gray, and then the design is applied through a screen made of silk or nylon gauze stretched over a wooden or metal frame, on which the design for one colour has been reproduced.
