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  • noun A wall covering made from the fibres of jute, rushes or other grasses

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Examples

  • Cleber Dealencar/Warwick Properties Group The powder room, pictured, is covered in grasscloth wallpaper and accentuated French marble on the floors.

    San Francisco Oasis 2010

  • The beautiful fabric called grasscloth, which rivals the best French cambric in softness and fineness of texture, is manufactured from the fiber of this plant.

    Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture William Saunders 1861

  • While I know the grasscloth is a keeper for the long haul, I can easily change the mood of the room by repainting the painted wall section whenever I tire of the current scheme.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Sarah Richardson 2010

  • Ms. Eisen said she removed a pencil sketch of a nude woman from the bedroom and added grasscloth wallpaper that she had left over from her own apartment.

    RoboCop's SoHo Penthouse 2010

  • A textural, subtly striped grasscloth, right, was cut into squares and hung in alternating directions, so the light catches each piece differently.

    Thom Filicia Style Thom Filicia 2008

  • Think of grasscloth walls, a driftwood lamp, an organic wood bowl filled with seashells found along your favorite beach.

    Thom Filicia Style Thom Filicia 2008

  • Swathing the entire room, including the ceiling, with woven grasscloth backed by charcoal-paper makes the space feel less flat and gives it substance.

    Thom Filicia Style Thom Filicia 2008

  • There's nine layers of wallpaper swelling on the dining-room walls, flowers under stripes under flowers under birds under grasscloth.

    Fight Club Palahniuk, Chuck 1996

  • I took a short silent ride on an elevator padded with gray batting and exited into a corridor floored in royal-blue plush and paper with grasscloth.

    When the Bough Breaks Jonathan Kellerman 1985

  • I took a short silent ride on an elevator padded with gray batting and exited into a corridor floored in royal-blue plush and paper with grasscloth.

    When the Bough Breaks Jonathan Kellerman 1985

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