Sentence examples for silk mantle from inspiring English sources

They span a huge arc of time, from a tiny Mexican ceramic mask of the ninth century B.C. to a hummingbird-colored silk mantle woven in Madagascar in 1998.

They take many forms, from devotional icons to notebook drawings to Sunday-best hats, and they span centuries and continents, from a tiny Mexican ceramic mask made around the ninth century B.C. to a hummingbird-colored silk mantle woven in Madagascar in 1998.

They take many forms, from devotional icons to notebook drawings to Sunday-best hats, and they span centuries and continents, from a tiny Mexican ceramic mask made around the ninth century B.C. to a silk mantle woven in Madagascar in 1998.

They take many forms, from devotional icons to notebook drawings to Sunday-best hats, and they span centuries and continents, from a tiny Mexican ceramic mask made around the ninth century B.C. to a hummmingbird-colored silk mantle woven in Madagascar in 1998.

Later, when he became a paid teacher of English at Tenerif University, he spent spare time looking for old textiles, the sort of silk mantles called lambas -- broad pieces of cloth worn as togas -- that the rich and powerful wore throughout their lives in 19th-century Madagascar as blankets in the cradle to shrouds in the grave.

By the war's end, the Germans had looted more than thirty thousand items of Judaica — silk Torah mantles, prayer shawls, silver ritual cups and dishes, and portraits, kitchenware, and other domestic items that reflected centuries of Jewish life.

The Queen was plainly attired in black silk dress and mantle, with a narrow trimming of satin floss, and a black bonnet, relieved in the border with a few white flowers.

It features undergarments and accessories, along with men's and women's costumes that include a beautifully preserved French waistcoat, circa 1715, and a late-19th-century mantle in silk velvet and wool by Émile Pingat.

Silk threads (and silk ribbons).

And while they may have been gently coaxed into striking acrobatic poses by the artist and photographer Sam Taylor Wood, they carry these mantles of embroidered silk and tulle and feathers as if by birthright.

It is a four-square mantle, lined in crimson silk and decorated with silver coronets, national symbols and silver imperial eagles in the four corners.