bedcover

She did not realize that this particular bedcover was made of cotton, not linen; nor that it was actually made, not by a patriotic American woman, but by a British weaver for export to the former colonies.

Considered one of the jewels of the ROM's Textile Collection, this early 18th-century palampore, or bedcover, from India's Coromandel Coast is decorated with an intricate tree of life design inspired by a melange of Persian, European, Indian, and Chinese styles.

Mr Everitt added: "Sometimes I've gone into a property, pulled back the bedcover and there have literally been thousands of the mites.

A homemade quilt is much more than a bedcover, it is pieces of our lives stitched together with love.

Decide what to make: a cushion, a bag, a tapestry, a bedcover. To start with, choose something rather small.

The material excuse for the creation of the room is the marvellous wall-hangings, donated by Mrs Wrightsman, which are now kept well away from the visitor in the bed alcove; the bedcover and the inner hangings are modern, as also are the balustrade and three of the four chandeliers, copied from the fourth, which dates from about 1715.

Ceremony - Shingon tea pot pounds 25; Purity - Miyono teapots from pounds 15; Love - Glassware from pounds 3; Desire - Shimla satin quilted bedcover pounds 230, Sanwei micro-quilted cotton throw pounds 150, mohair throw pounds 70, Patnasilk bedcover pounds 230.; Ritual - Glassware from pounds 3; Nature - Narlanda leaf plates from pounds 3

His materials are clean, and his compositions--like the lyrical I Am the Resolution, 2003, a field of port-colored tatters and marble-size blue, turquoise, marigold, and lemon beads sewn onto a bedcover that's been belted at the middle--are highly structured.

Samuel's non-reading became painfully evident: "An analogy is drawn between book and bedcover by editor (/photographer) Lydia Hamessley..." (235).

A selection of clothing lies across the bedcover. She places each trouser and shoe combination together, stands back, considers.

With its floral bedcover, lime wallpaper, white painted bed and voile curtains, this room is the perfect hideaway in which to kick off your shoes.

BLUE PATCHWORK QUILTED BEDCOVER, PS68, GREAT LITTLE TRADING COMPANY

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Although the Edisto Medallion quilt top was never completed, several of its fabrics reappear in another chintz applique bedcover begun by Amarinthia and Mary Frampton in the 1850s.

An anonymous Bahraini woman knitted a bedcover, dubbed as the "Blessing Blanket", when she underwent treatment for ovarian cancer and is now being treated for colon cancer.