Sentence examples for silk scraps from inspiring English sources

Halpin not only illustrates the covers of the books Anna reads, but also creates wonderful diagram drawings of the projects that consume Anna, from making a drawstring lunch bag out of old silk scraps to cooking won tons for a big family meal.

A scintillating pieced number from the late 19th century is the "Flying Geese" quilt of pieced and tied silk whose scraps seem cut from men's cravats, arranged in an orderly but vivid scheme of triple arrows confined by squares.

Yet this gossamer material can support cascades of loose, twirling gold and quartz-coloured silks, carefully sewn scraps of landscapes, stitched star maps and black, blocky words.

These include making "fortune cookies" out of card or felt and writing messages to go inside them on materials associated with China, such as scraps of silk or paper lanterns.

Even worse, when the Balenciaga company moved headquarters, the ancient collection of dresses wrapped in tissue, the sketches, photos of the collections, hats, silk flowers, feathers, fabric scraps, unfinished dresses, boots, velvet shoes and buttons were all moved in the middle of the night.

There's a haunting description in WG Sebald's The Rings of Saturn of a dress that is never worn: "[A] bridal gown made of hundreds of scraps of silk embroidered with silken thread, or rather woven over cobweb-fashion, which hung on a headless tailor's dummy, was a work of art so colourful and of such intricacy and perfection that it seemed almost to have come to life".

Scraps of silk were found in a Liangzhu culture site at Qianshanyang in Huzhou, Zhejiang, dating back to 2700 BCE.

If Hermès can fool the consumer that their band is superior to Apple's models, they can also convince the consumer that their fashion-forward scarves are better than a $5 scrap of silk from H&M and that a relationship with a brand Hermès – not the products themselves – will make them better people.

But Poiret stole time to dress a wooden mannequin that his sisters gave him, using scraps of parasol silk, and to make fashion sketches.

The walls are covered in a blue-green brocatelle silk recreated by Scalamandre from scraps of the original that the Austins bought in Venice.

(In my favorite of many Christmas scenes, little Grace gets an elegant new coat and hood, trimmed in swan's down; her father shot the bird, her mother cured the skin and did most of the sewing, and her older sisters pieced out the lining from scraps of blue silk).