Sentence examples for striped fabric from inspiring English sources

But even for Europe's unordained citizenry, says Michel Pastoureau, who relates this incident in "The Devil's Cloth: A History of Stripes and Striped Fabric" (Columbia University Press), the Middle Ages were a time when wearing stripes of any kind was a perilous act.

Last fall in Paris, Jean Paul Gaultier felt moved to shrink-wrap an entire furnished room in Breton striped fabric for Elle magazine, celebrating both the stripe's cultural vitality and its ancestral relationship to seasickness.

People could manufacture striped fabric before they could make doors and windows.

We like the steamboat, the rectangular striped fabric things (sunshades? beach chairs?) and the Boardwalk swells' suits.

The second panel, on a finely striped fabric in oranges and blues, is more of a tangle.

The sky-high ceiling is draped in blue and white striped fabric, creating a crisp, summer-in-the-Hamptons look.

Striped fabrics indicate flags, and we're told that Baron was against nationalistic sentiment.

Four severe women, faces war painted and bodies bandoliered in striped fabrics — they looked like nautical majorettes — began high-stepping in place and screeching in the upper octaves.

PARIS — The trends of the summer season are already emerging: striped fabrics, vivid colors and the use of abstracted collars and cuffs.

Visitors saw a surprising range of sectional sofas, some splashes of orange and chartreuse, new striped fabrics and moderate-price sofas that can be ordered in custom lengths.

Was it the better to see the woven houndstooth checks, the apparently striped fabrics — in fact, tiny rolls of fabric — and the feminine clichés of big bows and roses marrying streamlined masculinity with the female factor?