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Drapery

Drapery meaning

Cloth draped gracefully in folds. | A piece of cloth, hung vertically as a curtain; a drape. | The occupation of a draper; cloth-making, or dealing in cloth.

Example sentences (20)

The building last was occupied by Illinois Carpet and Drapery, which closed in 2022.

Her father owned a drapery shop in her village on the west coast of Ireland, which meant she spent a lot of her childhood 'gawking at everybody's houses' while helping her father install curtains and blinds.

Laura Ramsay has watched the popularity of downtown Bangor wax and wane over the 25 years she has worked at Bangor Window Shade and Drapery on Main Street.

Officials recommended a cable-mesh drapery system to prevent any sloughing of remaining loose materials and planting native seeds to further stabilize the slope.

That's why we're here to break down the basics for an easy shopping experience — whether you're a drapery newbie or veteran.

Add a few matching coloured textiles like pillows, throws and drapery and you will wake up (and warm up) your rooms for the cold winter ahead.

In the 1920s the partnership flourished, acquiring several potential competitors, notably Chivers which occupied large premises at 7-9 High Street, as befitted a business advertised as 'The Leading Drapery House' in Abingdon.

Later, he and his wife, Josephine, opened a drapery store in Cowra's main street.

Sophia Kokosalaki, the London-based Greek designer, has died at the age of 47. Kokosalaki was known for her talent for drapery and clothes that had a female-friendly glamour.

The Yardville location has recently undergone a top-to-bottom renovation of the interior—new carpets, new drapery, new walls and woodwork and new paint.

According to a report from the Fairfield Fire Department, the fire began when candles ignited a drapery in the sitting room.

But the bottom of the downstroke at close quarters and from slightly above reveals a bird cloaked in a corrugated drapery of up-curved feathers.

In a request sent out two days after the Super Bowl, Feb. 6, Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority (MSFA) Chairman Mike Vekich sought proposals for the design, manufacture, installment and testing of ‘blackout curtain drapery’ for the stadium.

Instead of agreeing to make the man more “respectable” with a flutter of drapery, Burne-Jones abandoned the society and became more closely associated with the pre-Raphaelite group and his friend Morris.

It was a far cry from its humble beginnings as a small drapery shop in Glasgow in 1849, the brainchild of farmer’s son Hugh Fraser and small business owner James Arthur.

Agostino only got as far as beginning to shape the legs, feet and the torso, roughing out some drapery and probably gouging a hole between the legs.

A marked development in Leonardo's ability to draw drapery occurred in his early works.

A significant motif of Romanesque design is the spiral, a form applied to both plant motifs and drapery in Romanesque sculpture.

Bartolomeo learned perspective from the younger artist, while Raphael added skills in coloring and handling of drapery, which was noticeable in the works he produced after their meeting.

Ernst Kitzinger found in both monuments the same "stubby proportions, angular movements, an ordering of parts through symmetry and repetition and a rendering of features and drapery folds through incisions rather than modelling..