Sentence examples for small patchwork from inspiring English sources

There is something curiously timeless about Ryan's small patchwork collages.

There are isolated hill farms, wealthy border farms, small patchwork farms – all within relatively close distance.

GM advocates complain that a new 150-meter buffer zone between GM and conventional crops (300 meters for organic crops) has no scientific basis and will make it impossible to plant GM crops in western Germany's small, patchwork fields.

The area rug is an unusually large oval and made from small patchwork material.

Use up all the scraps you created from winter sewing projects to make miniature quilts and other small patchwork projects.

Cities represent a small-scale patchwork of very contrasting soil features.

Even though they may seem small, the patchwork effect of many gardens is massive.

On the other hand, agrarian systems with small plots (patchwork) and greenery between fields could be integrated into larger green networks (Herrera Calvo, [2013]).

Landscapes could have consisted of a small-scale vegetational patchwork dominated almost monospecifically in any one patch, meaning that these plants could have coexisted across the landscape.

Although small fragments of patchwork have been found in tomb excavations in Asia and the Middle East, the earliest existing quilts may be two large 14th-century wholecloth (i.e., entire, not pieced) Sicilian pieces whose whitework surfaces are heavily embellished with trapunto, also known as corded or stuffed quilting.

Royal commissions were in effect abolished during the Thatcher years, but in the 1970s members were paid a modest daily allowance.This patchwork of small payments, or no payments at all, has a pernicious effect.