brocading
- present participle of brocade.
Example Sentences
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"Royal India" may be the longest shadow of the imperial sunset, but the techniques this show celebrates--like tie-dying, brocading, hand embroidering and intricate weaving--are still practiced.
From Time Magazine Archive
Tusser-silk, tus′ėr-silk, n. a kind of dark fawn-coloured silk, generally made without brocading or patterns.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
The great Camellia trees gave lavishly of their waxen flowers, brocading the snow in crimson.
From The House of the Misty Star A Romance of Youth and Hope and Love in Old Japan by Little, Frances, [pseud.]
