fictile

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The exterior is richly and peculiarly ornamented, to show the progress of fictile art.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" by Various

Examples of this kind of weaving may be obtained from the fictile remains of nearly all the Atlantic States.

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

Then we meet him in the Vedas, the Being by whom the fictile vase is formed; the clay out of which it is fabricated.

From The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

"Jupiter angusta vix totus stabat in �de; Inque Jovis dextra fictile fulmen erat."

From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.

Textile and fictile arts are, in their earlier stages, to a large extent, vessel making arts, the one being functionally the offshoot of the other.

From A Study Of The Textile Art In Its Relation To The Development Of Form And Ornament Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884-'85, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1888, (pages 189-252) by Holmes, William Henry