| Most artists' canvases are linen, a greyish brown cloth which is strong and hard-wearing. |
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| Tweed also reeks of quality, and it's a hard-wearing, versatile fabric that just gets better with age. |
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| Products in the old stores are old-fashioned although they are hard-wearing. |
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| They were hard-wearing, waterproof, and were both cool to wear in summer, and warm in winter. |
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| The choice of hard-wearing, if dowdy, plastics and fabrics inside means that intergalactic mileages can be covered with little sign of wear. |
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| Polished plaster is hard-wearing and durable, needing only occasional dusting and an annual re-wax. |
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| Perlata is designed for use in large-scale commercial applications, providing a seamless, hard-wearing and durable interior finish. |
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| Competitive prices, hard-wearing soles and quality leather are the key qualities of the brand, says John. |
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| Drab, dark-coloured fabrics, favoured by many makers to give their cars a businesslike look and dirt-resistant functionality, are hard-wearing but dreary. |
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| Silicones properties, thanks to their incomparable nature, are used in innovative, hard-wearing and sometimes surprising functions. |
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| It is probably lined with calamanco, a hard-wearing mixture of silk and wool. |
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| But sleepy-heads hoping to grab a quick nap will be disappointed as there are no duvets on these beds which are instead covered with a hard-wearing plastic fabric. |
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| The spreading vanes and swivel blades are made of especially hard-wearing stainless steel. |
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| The profile of the rucksack is rounded off by hard-wearing material that connects the fashionable outfit to its practical interior. |
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| They are made of highly wear-resistant special steel and are very hard-wearing. |
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| This door's manufacturing system and the fact that it has an inner frame make it one of the most hard-wearing and resistant on the market. |
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| Resilient, hard-wearing and durable, it blends in with all living situations perfectly. |
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| The use of very refined detail proved very durable, hard-wearing, easy to clean. |
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| In this system, a resin-based strengthening layer is pressed underneath the decor layer, making the flooring especially hard-wearing. |
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| It is strong and hard-wearing, which makes it suitable for use in a number of areas. |
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| From the moment they're delivered, Witex professional floor coverings are hard-wearing and durable. |
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| Extremely robust and hard-wearing car operating panel, landing operating panel and car position indicators. |
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| The exposed, black steel frame gives a pared-back aesthetic and the seat pads are comfier than they look: plump but firm and super hard-wearing. |
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| If we're recovering furniture, go for a sensible hard-wearing fabric and titivate the look with cushions. |
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| Wood floors not only look gorgeous, they are healthy, hard-wearing and warm because wood is a natural insulator. |
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| Gloss is usually oil-based and slow to dry but very hard-wearing, and is often used for interior woodwork. |
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| The fact that it is biodegradable does not make the fabric any less hard-wearing, says one of the founders, Daniel Freitag. |
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| They were affordable and hard-wearing, looked good worn as well as new, and didn't have to be washed often or ironed at all. |
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| It may consist of trousers and a seamless shirt made of a hard-wearing fabric, worn with moccasins. |
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| The firm mixes marble dust from the same quarry used by Michelangelo with other materials to create a hard-wearing marble finish. |
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| In general you will need hard-wearing, warm items of clothing. |
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| Our buying team has worked hard to source high-quality, hard-wearing uniforms. |
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| Poreless surface for optimal hygiene, water and oil tight, easy-care and hard-wearing. |
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| In addition to being very hard-wearing, glazing sealants can also easily be painted over with dispersion paints and alkyd resin paints. |
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| Pressure-sensitive labels are hard-wearing, water-resistant, non-slip and permit dress options to gladden the hearts of marketing experts. |
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| This can be done, for example, by making effective use of renewable raw materials, by manufacturing good quality, hard-wearing, durable and recyclable products, and by reducing the hazard of waste that results. |
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| The material, sold by the meter, has to be perforated in such a way it does not rove and must be hard-wearing and blend in with the plastic, with no projecting edge. |
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| The special requirements of the hotel and catering trades have given rise to the 'hotelware' sector, with specially designed hard-wearing ceramics. |
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| Since dust from the mine tunnels is tracked in and work clothes are often a little dirtier than for normal office workers, desktops must be extra hard-wearing. |
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| Its casing is made from hard-wearing plastic, offering excellent protection against knocks and dropping. The mobile data collection device is thus perfectly suited for a tough working environment. |
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| It is not as hard-wearing as a tight low looped pile carpet. |
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| The hard-wearing look continued with heavy brown moon boots worn under skin-tight trousers cut to the ankle or knee and asymmetrical jackets drawn tight across the shoulders. |
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| The new hard-wearing variety was developed by the Aberystwyth-based Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research. |
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| The favourite is birch-faced ply, which is reasonably hard-wearing and has a contemporary look. |
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| The agricultural research institute in West Wales was commissioned to develop a hard-wearing grass by British Seed Houses more than a decade ago. |
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| Dulux Trade recommended hard-wearing products suitable for the materials and exposure conditions. |
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| We visit the factory where you can see the shoes being made and purchase or order your choice of hard-wearing, ultra-comfortable veldskoen, direct from the factory. |
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| The limitless range of patterns and colourful yarns made berlin work wildly popular in Canada. Because berlin work was hard-wearing, it was used on chairs, footstools, sofas, valances and even men's suspenders and slippers. |
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| Old metal mains are being replaced with hard-wearing plastic pipes which should last for 80 years as part of an ongoing pounds 10 million project. |
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| Made from the same material as an old London Tube train seat, the Moquette should be nothing if not hard-wearing. |
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| Resistant to a wide range of chemicals, the hard-wearing valves weigh between 355 grams and 28kg with dimensions from 71 to 290mm, 63 to 333mm, and 8 to 125mm. |
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| And kids that need a break after playing, dancing and a visit to the moon can relax and unwind on the tried and true sigikid folding sofa, now available in a new, hard-wearing fabric. |
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| This hard-wearing thread is perfectly suitable for problem free sewing on extremely stressed material such as innovative functional textiles in equipment and outifts for the sports and outdoor apparel industry. |
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| Hard-wearing though they are, with the passing of time these tiles became slightly concave, so that the pointing lines formed raised ridges. |
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