fictile

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Impressions upon pottery represent a class of work utilized in the fictile arts.

From Prehistoric Textile Fabrics Of The United States, Derived From Impressions On Pottery Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-82, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1884, pages 393-425 by Holmes, William Henry

We learn this from the paintings on Greek fictile vases.

From Needlework As Art by Alford, Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess

They take a high place among American fictile products for grace of form and beauty of decoration.

From Ancient art of the province of Chiriqui, Colombia Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884-1885, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1888, pages 3-188 by Holmes, William Henry

Dress was adorned with embroidered spots and Etruscan borders, and the ladies wore diadems, and tried to be as like as possible to the Greek women painted in fictile art.

From Needlework As Art by Alford, Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess

Al-Barníya, "vas fictile in quo quid recondunt," whence the Spanish word Albornia, "a great glazed vessel in the shape of a bowl, with handles."

From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Yule, Henry