mohair

Example Sentences

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The 104-seat restaurant has walnut-paneled walls, booths upholstered in a dusty cocoa mohair and a jewel-box bar topped with original metal lamps designed by Breuer.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026

Two weeks before the show, young seamstresses were crocheting floral motifs in mohair and Japanese metallic thread at a south London studio overlooking the Thames river and Big Ben.

From Barron's • Feb. 18, 2026

The next morning, I wandered into a local yarn store called The Dropped Stitch and found myself petting skeins of mohair in colors with edible names: “tarragon,” “licorice,” “pumpkin spice.”

From Salon • Nov. 4, 2025

The Teddy has a mohair coat, original boot-button eyes, stitched smile and cupped ears, one of which has been sewn back on, slightly in the wrong direction.

From BBC • Aug. 16, 2023

This was going to be the start of a real crying jag, I had the feeling, for a girl whose only hopes for the year were a sweet-sixteen party and a pink mohair twin set.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver