veining

How to use veining in a sentence

• The mid-rib there is of silver couching; the minor veinings are stitched in silk, and are rather insignificant.

  Art in Needlework | Lewis F. Day

• All the design is outlined with silver cord or thread, and the veinings of the leaves are indicated in the same way.

  English Embroidered Bookbindings | Cyril James Humphries Davenport

• This is a beautiful marble of feathery purple grey veinings on a creamy white ground.

  The Cathedral Church of Peterborough | W.D. Sweeting

• The veinings of leaves are often worked in Venetian bars, over a ground of Brussels lace.

  The Ladies' Work-Book | Unknown

• The wreath of flowers which surrounds the book is embroidered in satin stitch, the tendrils and veinings are in overcast.

  Beeton's Book of Needlework | Isabella Beeton