damask
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Across the landing, the Yellow Room also boasts expensive furnishings, especially the bed, which is covered in bright yellow damask, re-creating a bed Washington acquired in 1758.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 7, 2026
Cardinals wear similar clothes, but they can be distinguished by their more ornate damask pattern mitres, which look cream rather than white.
From BBC • Apr. 25, 2025
Opie’s backdrop is a damask drapery in dark green, red’s vivifying complementary color.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 31, 2024
The current exhibit piece, Seattle-based Hungarian artist Timea Tihanyi’s “Like Love,” continues through the end of August, and features a deconstructed damask tablecloth adorned with hands in honor of Hungarian embroidery work.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 2, 2022
Many of the fabrics that we know of today came to Europe via the Muslims, and their names still show their origins: damask from Damascus, muslin from Mosul, gauzes from Gaza.
From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson
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