drapery

But as the Oxford Companion says of Gainsborough, “Unlike most of his contemporaries he employed no drapery painter.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026

Restorations of unknown date have resulted in the exposure of under drawing in certain areas, like the drapery of Salome, and a blurring of the line distinguishing the Virgin’s pillow from the gilded ground.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025

After dropping out of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, she moved to Malibu and started a company called Kurtain Kraft, which created a product that used wire hangers and fabric to create window drapery.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2024

Opie’s backdrop is a damask drapery in dark green, red’s vivifying complementary color.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2024

Sitting rooms spill over with tipsy sofas and moth-eaten covers, and the furniture is piled high with old-fashioned post-balloons, buckets, house-lanterns, drapery, older télétropes, bolts of lace, half-burned candles, broken spyglasses, ear-trumpets, and more.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

The billowing draperies are, respectively, lime green, chrome yellow, ultramarine blue and sienna brown, and the angels’ wings sport multihued stripes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

There, gleaming gypsum flowers bloom from stone draperies laced with translucent cave pearls.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2023

Black draperies hung on doorways under the Capitol dome in preparation for the service.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 8, 2021

To recreate the czar’s private rooms, Ms. Ryadova’s team had to remake almost everything: pickled oak parquet floors, wool rugs and silk draperies, and even spittoons that were used by the imperial family and courtiers.

From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 2021

The rug being out and the draperies down, the piano sounded tinny and alive.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns