Proxmire suggests buying a wool remnant and getting it cut to perfectly fit your space.
Mr. Coleman talked Mr. Jackson out of an expensive Oriental carpet, choosing instead a less claustrophobic, neutral wool sisal remnant he found for $800.
Ms. Suwannagate cuts up old cashmere sweaters on dress forms and embellishes them with cascading flowers that she makes out of the remnant wool.
There was the pink facade of Havana's El Floridita restaurant, where Ernest Hemingway had warmed a bar stool and the first daiquiri was poured; the remnants of the steel wool factory Mayorkas' father had abandoned after the Communist revolution; the cemetery where Mayorkas' grandmother is buried.
It will include a 9-by-12-foot new wool-and-silk carpet (from $6,200 down to $2,300), wool broadloom ($110 a yard down to $29) and remnants, from $45.
Hearsay, 2013, Dining room table, staircase spindles, exterior doors, newel post, bureau parts, church bench, cabinet doors, end table, cast furniture remnants, vintage 1940's glass lens, resin, wool, window frames, concrete, wire cattle fencing, and black velvet, 89" x 58" x 92".
Hearsay, 2013, Dining room table, staircase spindles, exterior doors, newel post, bureau parts, church bench, cabinet doors, end table, cast furniture remnants, vintage 1940's glass lens, resin, wool, window frames, concrete, wire cattle fencing, and black velvet, 89" x 58" x 92" Like Kurt Schwitters before her, Schenkelberg breathes life into the lost and forgotten.
Using my French, the tattered remnants of my Latin and the exhibits themselves, I begin to acquire some essential vocabulary -- lana (wool), lino (linen), seda (silk) and algodon (cotton).
