They worked on squares of linen that looked as if they were being readied for a priest's vestry.
In its heyday, the factory churned out 22 million square meters of linen a year.
A square piece of linen called a corporal serves as a place mat.
4. A square piece of linen called a corporal serves as a place mat. 5.
For a W magazine and P & G Prestige party to entertain 1,000 guests at the colossal and poetic Park Avenue Armory, its producers hung 60-foot curtains sewn from 35,000 square feet of linen; imported movie stars like Cate Blanchett; and set up a 50-foot screen for a video installation by the photographer Solve Sundsbo in which Lara Stone turned into a hawk, a tree and David Agbodji.
At Vintry Wine & Whiskey in the financial district, your glass of Château Lascombes or a barrel-aged manhattan will be placed on the square of hemstitched linen.
Each is a five- by-five-foot square of stretched linen covered with black oil paint — sometimes with a dollop of color (red, blue or green) mixed in — applied in gridlike blocks.
Basically, the kaffiyeh is a square of cotton, linen, wool, or silk, either plain or patterned, that is folded into a triangle and placed upon the head so that one point falls on to each shoulder and the third down the back.
(Rosenberg) Galleries: SoHo Helen Mirra: 'Field Notation' (through Nov. 12) Following the simultaneous examples, it would seem, of the Richards Long and Tuttle, the American artist Helen Mirra goes for walks in the wild, taking folded squares of raw linen and pieces of oil stick and graphite in hues of green, brown and black.
