grass-cloth

As runways were being assembled for the launch of Fashion Week at Lincoln Center the other day, fashion designer Elie Tahari was three blocks away in a glass-walled condominium on the Hudson River looking over an installation of mid-century furniture and textured grass-cloth wallpaper.

Fashion Icons, Interior Designers Share Space 2010

The walls were decorated with curling and torn Grateful Dead posters; the floor was covered in a dirty grass-cloth mat; a lava lamp on the table was cracked, liquid pooled beside it.

The Dangerous Hour Muller, Marcia 2004

Papagayo had a bag of grass-cloth and bits of cane, from which protruded strips of leather and scarlet broadcloth.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

Carli and Merolla make them equivalent to brass money; the former were grass-cloth a yard long, and ten = 100 reis; in 1694 they were changed at Angola for a small copper coin worth 2 1/2 d., and the change caused a disturbance for which five soldiers were shot.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

Three walls of the large room were covered with alternating strips of dark wood paneling and buff grass-cloth.

Sagittarius Whorl May, Julian 2001

At dinner the ladies presented themselves as much dressed as they could be without being _décolletées_; and the men had doffed their grass-cloth or linen garments, and put on dress-coats, or, at least, black coats.

The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 Various

Times out of mind am I here setting up this bright branch, this silky wood with the charms painted in it as fine as the web you'd get in the grass-cloth of Shinobu, that they'd be still selling you in this mountain.

Certain Noble Plays of Japan From the manuscripts of Ernest Fenollosa Ezra Pound 1928

I'm afraid I smiled a little as I looked around the room, with its gray grass-cloth walls, its toilet-table spread with ivory and gold, and the maid in attendance in her black dress and white apron, collar and cuffs.

The Case of Jennie Brice Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917

I'm afraid I smiled a little as I looked around the room, with its gray grass-cloth walls, its toilet-table spread with ivory and gold, and the maid in attendance in her black dress and white apron, collar and cuffs.

The Case of Jennie Brice 1913

Clad in his ragged fur garment, bare legged and bare armed, with the grass-cloth sack slung over his sinewy shoulder and the heavy stone-ax in his hand, he looked the very image of prehistoric man -- as she, too, seemed the woman of that distant age.

Darkness and Dawn George Allan England 1906