Voorbeelden van velvet

• Colourful velvets for the outer case began to appear in the early nineteenth century.

• Courtiers played their parts in carefully selected clothes; jewelled hats, white satins, tawny velvets, orange taffetas.

• Perhaps more understandable is the impulse to dress her not in the white cloth of gold but the spectacular velvets more usual to male monarchs on that day.

• We want the velvet-glove treatment with our own work; therefore, we may well remain politic about others' practical work in the meantime.

• The manic pace and utter disbelief of the velvet revolution has subsided.

• The materials and finish give it the impression of a ballroom: velvet on the rear wall, red wall surfaces.

• The velvet cloth is a near perfect black, but more expensive and less readily available than the other materials.

• His adoption of blues and lavenders, his use of satin and velvet, also recall the great late eighteenth-century fops.