Sentence examples for translucent silk from inspiring English sources

The walls and ceiling were hung with translucent silk through which beams of light filtered.

But the dappata - a 5ft-long,3ft-wide, loose veil made of translucent silk - is a very happy Pakistani compromise between Muslim modesty and sexy femininity.

These include translucent silk and cotton window screens like the one behind her (they start at $300), with a picture of a barley field just before harvest in County Wicklow, Ireland.

Hanging on a rack were a series of shift dresses that seemed, at first glance, to be made from translucent silk tulle but were actually fabricated from stainless-steel mesh.

As Mooallem digs through the layers of meaning that have "been draped over animals, and on top of each other like translucent silk scarves," one starts to get the feeling that maybe we have never been able to really see wild animals at all.

A fashion designer by trade, her sensitivity to material comes out in the purposeful juxtaposition of textures, translucent silk pinned to heavy felt frames.

As the actress Tilda Swinton watched, the models, wearing fabrics like translucent Japanese silk or handcrafted 3-D silicone, almost entirely in black, created their own "music".

The main work is an installation: hanging panels of translucent white silk organza, seven layers, creating a kind of circular enclosure.

At Céline, Phoebe Philo took her signature leg-lengthening trousers and recast them in translucent white silk; she teamed them with matching shells and put them over a scarf-print tank top and Bermuda set, immediately sedating the print into a whisper of muted color.

A slender woman, seen from the back through a translucent sheath of silk, operates a weaving machine; three more women, before stacks of vinyl records, slide disks into cardboard sleeves; impossibly graceful, like one of Hiroshiges's beauties of Edo, yet another woman in a lab coat prepares processors at an I.B.M. plant in Tokyo.

The wealthy of Ming China delighted in beauty – cloudlike silk gauzes, translucent porcelains, ornate lacquerwork, gorgeous filigree – while famine periodically reduced subsistence farmers to eating earth and each other.