The hand-woven corslet which could cover his body. From Wordnik.com. [Beowulf An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem] Reference
She was tall and slim, dressed in a coarse, hand-woven dress. From Wordnik.com. [The Kentucky Ranger] Reference
Inside, local merchants display their wares on hand-woven carpets. From Wordnik.com. [Turning Afghan Heroin in Kalashnikovs] Reference
A customer admires a wall of hand-woven rebozos: Pictures of Mexico. From Wordnik.com. [A customer admires a wall of hand-woven rebozos] Reference
The cabins feature hand-woven silk sheets and hand-carved wood panels. From Wordnik.com. [All Aboard] Reference
The bracelet dropped to the floor, landing on a plush, hand-woven rug. From Wordnik.com. [Test of the Twins]
The terms hand-loom and hand-woven have different connotations. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 6] Reference
The silk warp, hand-woven fabric was first produced about the year 1660. From Wordnik.com. [Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades] Reference
The gleaming cherry-wood floors are dotted with hand-woven oriental carpets. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Conniff: Con Games: Rush Limbaugh, Elitist] Reference
But she does create handmade bespoke commissions and hand-woven art installations. From Wordnik.com. [How to weave a blanket] Reference
New Amsterdam with the same simple, well-made furniture and bright hand-woven rugs. From Wordnik.com. [The New Land Stories of Jews Who Had a Part in the Making of Our Country] Reference
The focus is on hand-woven natural fabrics and environmentally friendly dyeing techniques. From Wordnik.com. [Giving Till It Helps] Reference
Multi-gallons of opaque, green water saturate the cement floor — our hand-woven throw rugs. From Wordnik.com. [oh jeez, Noah, you knew] Reference
Consequently, fewer weaving faults should be made than is usual in the fully hand-woven fabric. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 6] Reference
It is made by women by hand - hand-dyed, hand-woven -- and so it gives it that something special. From Wordnik.com. [Afghan Fashion Hits London's High Street] Reference
The "Shadowy" chairs by Tord Boontje for Moroso (€1,000) are hand-woven by fishermen in Senegal. From Wordnik.com. [In Tough Times, Designers Get Crafty] Reference
Under the panniers, she had a colorful hand-woven wool blanket with heavy fringes flung over her haunches. From Wordnik.com. [Tran Siberian] Reference
They had nearly all abandoned the traditional hand-woven garb of their ancestors, and instead donned Nikes. From Wordnik.com. [Damage Control] Reference
White Bow took one look at Peter Matheson and bade his daughter to spread out one of her hand-woven blankets. From Wordnik.com. [Black Blade]
Fifteen miles west of the town on a new road along the lake shore is Jocotepec, famous for hand-woven serapes. From Wordnik.com. [Chapala - Mexico's Shangri-la] Reference
The interior of the tent had been draped with appliqued hangings; the floor covered with fine hand-woven rugs. From Wordnik.com. [Elvenblood]
Called the cabat, after the simple French carryall, the bag is hand-woven by two craftsmen on a giant wooden frame. From Wordnik.com. [Personalizing Purses] Reference
The latter were those upholstered in hand-woven material imported into England from the Orient and then exported to. From Wordnik.com. [Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century] Reference
Dyak house is screened off by large hand-woven Dyak sheets, and within these the mother sits with the child in her arms. From Wordnik.com. [Children of Borneo] Reference
The stragglers in the crowd parted and fell back from a solitary figure thickly encased in a multiplicity of hand-woven garments. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Fool]
Nearby was a silk worm farm, which produced enough silk for hand-woven dresses and scarves of unique design, made and sold by natives. From Wordnik.com. [Ajijic: the way we were] Reference
She had removed her cloak and simple, hand-woven garments and lay close, browned and open, her body adorned only by echoes of moonlight. From Wordnik.com. [Mid Flinx]
Guests gather around long wooden tables draped in hand-woven tablecloths, seated on simple backless benches and stools or brightly painted rush-seat chairs. From Wordnik.com. [Mexican cocinas: the colonial kitchen] Reference
They continuously fight to renew the value of the hand-woven and embroidered textile artisan goods they produce by focusing on quality and selling at just prices. From Wordnik.com. [Landscapes Of Mexico, Landscapes Of The Self] Reference
They are sitting behind a large rug, hand-woven by Federico with wool using the natural dye of cochineal, made with the bug that grows on the prickly pear cactus. From Wordnik.com. [Chavez Family Portrait. Front row (L-R) Chavez children Omar, Janet and Eric; Second row, Grandfather and Jose Chavez Ruiz and his wife, Grandmother Soledad, and Federico's wife, Dolores Chavez Santiago; Third row, Norma Hawthorne and Federico Chavez Sosa. They are sitting behind a large rug, hand-woven by Federico with wool using the natural dye of cochineal, made with the bug that grows on the prickly pear cactus.© Norma Hawthorne 2008] Reference
The Zapotec weaving village, famed for its highly decorative, hand-woven wool rugs, is about fifteen miles southeast of Oaxaca city off the Pan American Highway 190. From Wordnik.com. [Building a foundation to live in Teotitlan del Valle, Oaxaca] Reference
Farther down the street, towards the Zocalo a small store sells hand-woven rebozas and clothing and while the weaver is at work on his back-strap loom (weekends only). From Wordnik.com. [Malinalco, Mexico - A Font Of Mexico's History] Reference
Isolated and far from his native Iran, Ushman Khan has worked hard to build a wealthy, reliable clientele for his wares: exquisite hand-woven rugs from his home city of. From Wordnik.com. [The Rug Merchant: Summary and book reviews of The Rug Merchant by Meg Mullins.] Reference
A vision not completely incongruous with the streets; a small European-looking boy with worn-out boots, carrying a large hand-woven bag of gaudy colors advertising Cuernavaca. From Wordnik.com. [The Calling] Reference
After Christmas, these sidewalk sellers were jammed thumb-to-wrist, while elbow-to-elbow buyers jockeyed for their turn to bargain for a hand-woven shawl or brightly painted urn. From Wordnik.com. [Puerto Escondido In December: A November 2001 Update] Reference
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