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Sentence Examples She was sentenced to the pillory and to have the offending tapestry burned before her eyes. This intuitive quality that you speak of is not an entirely positive thread in the tapestry of my being. Tibetans make as much a part of the cultural tapestry of India as many other ethnic communities and cultures. Using archival footage, the producers created a beautiful tapestry of a life well spent. The materiality of the tapestry, with its optically softening effect, lends the work a necessary coolness and distance. The city has long been known for the production of fine lace, called Brussels lace, and for tapestry weaving. The Baillie family were well known upholsterers and tapestry makers with businesses in Capel Street and Abbey Street in Dublin. As it happens, this is just one telling detail in a carefully orchestrated tapestry of haunting effects. The investigation dredges up many dark secrets in the local community, a community represented here by a tapestry of interconnected characters. Okonkwo's insignificance grated on him as much as the presence of the white men and the way that they unraveled the tapestry of Ibo society. It is now hoped to put a tapestry behind the tabernacle with a light shining on it. Throughout, he addresses the reader directly, carefully unravelling the threads of the intricate tapestry that was his relationship with Lexy. In the pink-toned Wire Canyon Cutoff, for example, the matrix of interlaced verticals and horizontals suggests the warp and weft of a tapestry. I demonstrated how to thread the blunt tapestry needle, where to place the knot and how to hold and move the needle when stitching. Both weave seemingly different storylines and characters into a final tapestry of emotion and self-discovery. Any visit to his house was likely to involve a discussion about the placing of a sculpture or just how high on the wall a tapestry should hang. They complement each other wonderfully, their serpentine lines constantly weaving in and out, creating a dense tapestry. In the medieval Hall of St Mary, Green Men occur as bosses, corbels, in tapestry, and in stained glass. Pretty tapestry print silky dresses are worn with sumptuous tweeds, suede, leather and velvet. Here is a tapestry of shape and subtle colour, with dried stems, flowers, leaves and seedheads lightly dusted with frost. Show More Sentences But this was just to touch at the first impressions of a land where hermits, monks and pilgrims remain part of the essential tapestry of life. At the moment, driving to town is like driving through the middle of a Millefleurs tapestry. He thought it would win him extra respect in his neighbourhood, where murders, shoot-outs and drug deals were all part of life's rich tapestry. The tapestry of life bent around him, its threads flowing, bending to his will like iron before a blacksmith's anvil. Within the tapestry of Indian thought, solitude is an extremely important path which has to be traversed for the attainment of moksha or nirvana. Brownlee's interest in tapestry as a student is accredited to her aim of creating surface texture in her painting. Ultimately I think that the quest for God is about searching for threads of the divine in the tapestry of human experience. The tapestry is woven in wool on linen warps and contains details in silk, gold and silver. A tapestry is, by definition, a flat-woven cloth that uses discontinuous weft threads to create images. Home to nearly 2 million people, the neighborhood is a gritty tapestry of mechanics, metal grinders, junkmen and laborers. Lutherans, Anglicans, Baptists and evangelicals complete the broad tapestry. On the town gate in the tapestry, a man stands defiantly staring after the cart. As he retraces his footsteps on his Orphean journey with Mizuki by his side, a tapestry of human experience unfurls. Oral history, early historical accounts, maps, legends, photos, illustrations, and biographies are interwoven as the woof of this tapestry. The spiral stair acts as a viewing platform for a particularly precious antique tapestry hung on the rear wall of the entrance hall. Their music is a richly textured tapestry of jazz, folk, world beat, hip hop and pop. The Gullah people of the Atlantic Sea Islands are a small and vanishing treasure of the American cultural tapestry. He also produced tapestry cartoons and designs for theatrical sets and costumes. This palace was hung with fine tapestry and arrasses of silk and dighted with fine glass windows in all directions. The book marries witty, Jane Austen-ish language and style against an imagined tapestry of fairy magic. Show More Sentences Our modes and tonality, diverse ingredients and style unite in a tapestry of stitches belonging to different needles. They showcase the sweetly fragrant yellow flowers of angel's trumpet surrounded by a colorful tapestry of shorter flowers and foliage plants. The new place is attractive, with its muted tropical colors, vibrant wall tapestry and grass-green painted floors. Corresponding holes in the front of the parfleche were punched with a tapestry needle. The original is surely a vast Gobelin tapestry, not a row of petit point cushions? To increase automotive safety, I installed seat belts and Jesus tapestry reupholstery. The tapestry is weaved from a mixture of light linen and heavy velvet and is sometimes translucent, often opaque. A single piece of legislation never exists in isolation from the tapestry of law that undergirds life in Aotearoa New Zealand. He then headed the royal Gobelins tapestry manufactory, and in 1765 was appointed premier peintre du roi. They should be concerned that the tapestry of family life here is unraveling whilst promiscuity has become an accepted practice. Behind the two ancient thrones and their dais, there was a tapestry on the wall. The surfaces of his pictures are speckled with dabs of oil pigment almost reminiscent of a tapestry in its pattern and texture. Even the richly embroidered crimson tapestry on which Agamemnon sacrilegiously treads is at best suitable for cutting up into dishcloths. In late autumn, the hillside becomes a tapestry of textures in muted shades of gray, silver, and sage green, interspersed with burgundy and red. His characteristic caricatures of women and other subjects are all woven into a tapestry of intricate design and fused colors. Tirianna carefully sneaked over to the tapestry and Sicirin pulled her beneath the embroidered canvas. The listener will be treated to un-pedaled acoustic pieces as well as backward loops and dubs as fragile as a tapestry of overlaid spiderwebs. Her range of work includes hand-woven tapestry, wall hangings, framed tapestries, hand-woven bags and belts. In 1533 the Dermoyen tapestry firm dispatched a team of weavers and merchants to Istanbul to design tapestries for the sultan. One other area of textile work worthy of note is that of tapestry and embroidery. Show More Sentences Later, the artist went through periods of making tapestry and large-scale textile works. From 1977 on the work she exhibited included both large pieces of tapestry weaving and finely woven braids. I follow what Eliot says in his essay on free verse, that there has to be the ghost of meter behind the tapestry. I've been told that my life is but a single thread in the tapestry of the universe. As was indicated in Chapter 3, this rich tapestry of cultural and social variety is no new phenomenon. No less important, is the tapestry of outreach events organised by orchestras that bring musicians' skills off the stage. Over time, this tolerant allegiance has woven the varied tapestry of Indian Hindu Dharma. In fact, much of this issue of History Today picks up strands of the complex tapestry of the history of liberty. Form and content have been beautifully woven into a tapestry of romance, speaking for the here and now. She was very artistic and loved to work with her hands, especially at needle-work such as crochet and tapestry. The underskirt has a matching tapestry forepart, with trimmed cotton velvet overskirt. To complete his tapestry of interwoven plots, the resolution had to be brilliantly contrived. Meticulously illustrated pictures painted with a careful hand spanned pages upon pages in an epic tapestry of secret history. My own dreams seemed trivial before this tapestry of family plans and lifelong ambitions and children's college funds. Immigrant literature may seem to occupy a curious midway world, weaving a tapestry that is at once familiar and far away. You may be an integrator, able to seamlessly weave a tapestry of home and work threads. His past was a bitter tapestry sewn together from threads of fear and insecurity. The road to Mandalay is an asphalt thread through a tapestry of traditional village life. The tapestry of this complex play gives scope for some exciting performances, particularly for the wives and daughter. And in conversation he wove a fantastic tapestry of myths about his personal life. Show More Sentences In much the same way, tapestry has everything painting has, with the added tactile allure of texture. Asian and art deco in feel, they enlivened a blazer, turned a dress into a virtual tapestry. Life is a series of seemingly throwaway moments strung together in a peculiar tapestry, and Linklater has captured it beautifully. Axis and Alignment is a jazz tapestry accented by intricate minimalist patterns and incredibly fluid changes, a perpetually shifting sonic picture of gentle enlightenment. Even so, it takes a skilled weaver working with special wools and dyes a month or more to create a square yard of tapestry, so Aubusson never comes cheap. There was one single solitary chair per dim chamber, or one dark tapestry to divide a gloomy passageway, allowing regicides easy concealment behind it. They display brocades, compound weaves, lampas, plain weaves, samite, tapestry and twill to provide a snapshot of the expansive weaving styles of Central Asia. Poetically, the tapestry resolved itself as his eye grated into the lens. The architects have woven a rich tapestry of restrained luxury into the constrained fabric of an early nineteenth century neoclassical seminary of high heritage significance. In the fine arts, the cartoon is a full-sized preliminary drawing for a work to be executed afterward in fresco, oil, mosaic, stained glass, or tapestry. Third, the city's offer of twenty guilders per rod was only half what the land would be worth once the tapestry pand brought more business to the area. This is clear from her works on tapestry, knotted carpet and on litho. His fame rested above all on his ability to produce designs for tapestry, embroideries, stained glass, armory, and goldsmith work in the new classical idiom. Covering the hillside around the patio is a tapestry of astilbes, azaleas, campanulas, ferns, hellebores, hostas, Japanese maples, moss, and rhododendrons. She sat down at her loom, working quickly on the tapestry she was weaving. But this remains only one small thread in the environmentalist tapestry. His betrayal was woven into the colorful tapestry that was their story. Manson brought Spahn many presents, one of them being a large tapestry of a horse. A tapestry like this was the ultimate luxury good and status symbol, worth so much more than a measly painting. I am thrilled because the subject matter is rich, but I like that it is a tapestry of color, which is very much needed. Show More Sentences To reduce returning sound being muddied, the rear wall to the baptistry was opened with angled cuts and a tapestry hung, resulting in unusual visual links to the space. Hannah and Her Sisters One of Woody Allen's several masterpieces, a brilliant tapestry of interwoven stories. The variety and inventiveness of English is arranged on the pages not as dry text but as a living tapestry of language. One cannot but be awed to consider how the crowded mural of Bleak House or the elaborate tapestry of Little Dorrit were held together on semi-monthly basis. It looks as if it has been made from a Medieval tapestry, the colors rich and worn-looking. Sadly, too many players have ignored the rich chess tapestry that has shaped and colored the rules, strategies and openings that we take for granted today. The fields are 3ft high with wildflowers in a multicoloured tapestry. The boatyard and its moorings introduced Roy to a tapestry of like minded people and also earned them a large spread in the April '63 edition of lifestyle magazine The Tatler. Woven tapestry is one of the oldest and richest mural arts, and can be traced right back to the Ancient Greeks, Egyptians and Native North Americans. Contemporary belief stories and older myths intermingle to create the rich mythic tapestry that forms the backdrop to vernacular and alternative religiosity there. When she tried to look at anything else, the imperfections and the failings leapt out at her, the single thread unravelling in the otherwise perfect tapestry. The high plinth of the temple is a virtual tapestry of sculpture, with bands of dancing figures, animals, vegetation and other objects coming to life on its surface. A tapestry borrowed from the Voortrekker monument provides a woman's perspective of the daily deprivations and sufferings of the pioneer journey to the north. His stylish and decorative mythological paintings, tapestry cartoons, and designs for porcelain provided the setting for the lives of the rich and fashionable. Boucher considered these tapestry cartoons, which belonged to Mine de Pompadour and hung in her chateau at Bellevue, to be among his happiest inventions. The creation of the tapestry cartoons, which vary in size but measure approximately eleven by sixteen feet, involved a tremendous outlay of manpower. Because his reputation as a portraitist was growing, it is not surprising that an incentive was necessary to lure him back to painting tapestry cartoons. Using a plastic tapestry needle as a substitute for a bone needle, the sides of the parfleche were stitched with raffia using any number of stitching techniques. I thought the accompaniments would overshadow the fowl, but the chicken taste actually crept through to add a complex layer to the international tapestry of flavours. Each piece of tapestry from each school carries the names of town lands, mountains, rivers, lakes, castles, churches, friaries, wells, ringforts, and passageways. Show More Sentences The other instruments weave their sounds into the tapestry of music, and the audience exhales as one at the beauty of the fullness of their sound. The most important recent contribution to the renewal of Gobelins tapestry came from the painter Jean Lurcat, who began working there in the thirties. Since then, she has worked in a number of other media besides oil painting, including etching, lithography, watercolor, pastel, sculpture and tapestry. That appearance of Halley's comet was immortalized in the Bayeux tapestry. Portofino's most stunning introduction is a zodiac collection consisting of 12 tapestry pillows, each featuring a different astrological sign. Weaving a fine tapestry of earth, water, mountains and woodland birds, the talented flutist takes us along on her travels through space and time. Storytelling occurs as a tapestry as an inter-stitching of information among customers, managers, executives, vendors, employees and consultants. By far the most famous work of Norman art is the Bayeux Tapestry, which is not a tapestry but a work of embroidery. Flemish tapestries and, in the 16th and 17th centuries, Brussels tapestry hung on the walls of castles throughout Europe. Needlework and stumpwork, which often forms part of a casket or other object, can be more expensive than tapestry. A bright red and white woollen blanket tapestry stands out among various quilts and bedcovers. In conclusion, Artaud's portrayals of Mexico have weaved a rich and chiasmatic tapestry with crisscrossing lines, images, angsts, and desires. If that's a euphemism for snotters and spittle down your back, pish and clouds of hash, then, yes, a bus is life's big tapestry. But his use of the Phrygian mode in the final movement of the quintet wove a striking East-West tapestry of sound. Actors from Knights of Labor to Single Taxers to Wobblies to New Leftists to the Squamish Five are woven into the tapestry. Although fourhanded piano is extremely difficult, this dynamic duo weaved a tapestry of music. David has become an internationally renowned landscape watercolourist and Dinah a respected tapestry artist. Polonius, spying on the conversation from behind a tapestry, makes a noise. The weaving chapters encompass every level from paper weaving to potholder looms, finger-weaving to heddle and tapestry looms. South Australia is not for the flashy, wham-bam 'Wallyworld' tourist, rather it's a vast tapestry of many colours and moods. Show More Sentences A tapestry was created in 1997 to commemorate the invasion and is on display to the public in the Town Hall Library. I present Bosnavina to its Duchess, I kiss the hem of her Majesty's robe and will tapestry her Palace with conquered flags. Half the rooms are adorned with a kind of sutile pictures, which imitate tapestry. In France and Flanders tapestry weaving of sets like The Lady and the Unicorn became a major luxury industry. There is a tapestry of 40 Oswestry pub signs on display in the town's Guildhall on the Bailey Head. Examples of cross-stitch, lace, tapestry and more shows off the work by the museum's craft group. Aunt Meg called it a millefleurs, or thousand flowers, tapestry. The law governing wrongful death actions for the estates of those who die at sea is a baroquely intricate tapestry that interweaves strands of both statutory and common law. The main artistic interests of Henry VIII were music, building palaces and tapestry, of which he had over 2,000 pieces, costing far more than he ever spent on painters. Richard Hamilton's Portrait of Hugh Gaitskell as a Monster of Filmland from 1964 and Keith Piper's You are Now Entering Mau Mau tapestry shows how art can be of its time. Another quilter, Annie Mae Young, who was born in 1928, created a starkly different tapestry of wildly colorful, tiny rosettes individually made, then pieced together. The cathedral contains the tapestry Christ in Glory by Graham Sutherland. We went down a flight of fifteen steps below the ground level, and stood in a small chapel tricked out with tapestry hangings, silver lamps, and oil paintings. There are a variety of loom styles for hand weaving and tapestry. The unique, abstract Coloratura is evocative of a watercolor painting and uses a tapestry construction to feature four yarn colors that create distinctive areas. Conversely, if the warp is spread out, the weft can slide down and completely cover the warp, giving a weft faced textile, such as a tapestry or a Kilim rug. The tapestry maintains the traditional appearance and distinctiveness of the region of origin of each tribe, which has in effect its own repertoire of drawings. Following a few missteps, the hydroponically grown mural is now a robust tapestry of leafy plants, among them philodendron, fittonia, pilea and the spiderplant, chlorophytum. Led by a fanfare of pipes and bugles, monks buckle under the weight of the rolled-up 45m Thangka tapestry, with crowds clamouring to touch the 18th century holy relic. One of the most celebrated makers is De Wit, founded in 1889, which brings to BRAFA a millefleurs tapestry from the Abbey of Herkenrode, dated before 1548 and woven in Bruges. Show More Sentences Harold Godwinson is pictured on the tapestry rescuing two Norman knights from the quicksand in the tidal flats during a battle with Conan II, Duke of Brittany. Necessary and productive as a many-heddled loom is, there is something basic and satisfying about covering each warp thread by hand, in a tapestry or needle technique. Many of the Callunas change to deeper colours through the colder winter months, creating a tapestry of russet, orange, red and gold along with smoky greens. Examples from Classical Literature On hooks round the walls were hangings of blue tapestry, presenting a black diamond pattern, within a border of red roses. While she was hesitating, Pats drew aside the tapestry and passed with the candelabrum into the chamber. The posters, maculated with filth, garnished like tapestry the sweep of the curbstone. A representation of the landing is one of the designs in the Bayeux tapestry. He is styled the inventor of the velvet pile in tapestry, but it were better to call him the adaptor. There is a nef introduced in the famous Nancy tapestry of precisely the same construction. On a table with curved legs placed in the embrasure of the window lay a lute, a theorbo, and some pieces of unfinished tapestry. Moons of Grandeur is a ringing bell and a glimmering tapestry and a draught of sparkling wine. In a costume other than evening clothes, he might have walked out of a tapestry. Amidst all the grandeur of tapestry and painting one must not lose sight of the simpler methods, for they are not to be distained. The story of Jephthah was also one of the favourite subjects of ancient tapestry. On the walls were hung some pieces of tapestry, where there were not bookcases. There had been just room, and no more, for Clara to stand between the tapestry and the books. How very poor a succedaneum for fresco painting is Gobelius tapestry! The walls were covered with tapestry with a forest scene embroidered on it. We have abundant illustrations of them in the Bayeux tapestry. The hand clapping was deafening, and Jupiter had already withdrawn under his tapestry, while the hall still trembled with acclamations. Indeed, whether on carpets, or curtains, or tapestry, or ottoman coverings, all upholstery of this nature should be rigidly Arabesque. Aubusson, a French town on the Creuse, manufactures carpets and tapestry. As a matter of fact, the work is not tapestry at all, but crewel work. Show More Sentences A tapestry needle or a darning needle would do for this purpose. He began to dilate upon the virtues of another piece of tapestry. This also means using bigger, tapestry needles which, for those who dread threading tiny beading needles, is nearly a blessing. A piece of tapestry over a door also showed a blue-green world with a pale stag in it. It is in panels from French chateaux, covered with Gobelin tapestry. These walls are covered with silk, and the tapestry is Gobelin. It is the State that makes the Sevres porcelain, and the Gobelin tapestry. Before the window stood a large Voltaire chair, upholstered in tapestry. The walls of another room were covered with grotesquely and elaborately figured hand-wrought tapestry. Thirty first-rate pictures, uniformly framed, separated by bright drapery, ornamented the walls, which were hung with tapestry of severe design. The bed was adorned with the same rich tapestry, and surrounded with curtains dyed with purple. She, hearing of this embassy Sent by the Son of Heaven, starts from her dreams Among the tapestry curtains. After a drawing, now in the Louvre, for Raphaels tapestry cartoons. At length a hand and an arm, surpassingly beautiful in their form and whiteness, glided through the tapestry. They are like black holes burned by torches in a Tyrian tapestry. In Lisvane is a tapestry of a lane, its banks starred with stitchwort, studded with the gold of celandine, pink herb Robert and nodding purple violets. By a miracle, monsieur, I must acknowledge, with a sword thrust in my breast, and by nailing the Comte de Wardes on the byroad to Calais, like a butterfly on a tapestry. The tapestry hung down from the walls in many places, and in others was tarnished and faded under the effects of the sun, or tattered and decayed by age. I recognised magnificent rocks, hung with a tapestry of zoophytes of the most beautiful kind, and I was at first struck by the peculiar effect of this medium. At this moment the tapestry moved aside, and a Nubian, black as ebony, and dressed in a plain white tunic, made a sign to his master that all was prepared in the dining-room. Find more words! 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