Of textiles

Usage examples of quilting.

In the same way, the Epeira puts the eiderdown quilting and the taffeta wrapper round a capsule that contains nothing.

The metal, nonskid quilting of the deck impressed its pattern on his flesh.

The tubeless tire Lydecker had been wrenching off its wheel contained a long sausage-like bundle done up in an old piece of quilting.

We were all heading back from the sun, heading back to the moon, in great shape really, despite the beerguts and cellulite quilting, the rug glue and snapper sealant.

Remembering what he had heard of frontier days on his own world, quilting parties, corn-husking bees, where hardworking farmers whiled the time with what would later be considered games for young children—bobbing for apples, blindman’s buff—he realized he should have expected this.

There were dried brown spots all about the white quilting that lined the lower half of the coffin, that had been bloodspots flung about from his flailing, gashed fingertips.

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Amateur theatricals, people giving lessons in the guitar and piano, quilting bees, glee clubs, learn-how-to-make-it groups, debating societies, mushroom-collecting circles….

Then they'd given her clothes cut like her jump suit but made of puffy quilting.

Catty-corner across the road, next to McHenry's electronics store, The Quilting Bee had finally given up the ghost, old Laura moving all of her stuff out yesterday.

A wrecking bee instead of a quilting bee, Larry thought, and his eye caught one of the posters headed MASS MEETING, this one nailed to a telephone pole.

She and her friends were having a Friday night quilting bee, repairing canvas sails under the yellow light of an alcohol lamp.

But there was no way to save the sails and the dreadnoughts tended to look as if they'd just won first prize in a quilting bee.

The room was bare but spacious, and a bed of ebony with opulent quiltings of an olden fashion stood by the farther wall under an open window.

Round the table of citrean wood, highly polished and delicately wrought with silver arabesques, were placed the three couches, which were yet more common at Pompeii than the semicircular seat that had grown lately into fashion at Rome: and on these couches of bronze, studded with richer metals, were laid thick quiltings covered with elaborate broidery, and yielding luxuriously to the pressure.