How To Use Burlap In A Sentence
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At the base of the camp, a recent avalanche had disgorged burlap sacks, old door frames, mortar boxes, rolls of bailing wire, and pieces of fiberglass.
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paste the wall with burlap
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Bali painting unique, mostly with plastic and mineral pigments painted on burlap or white canvas on the theme drawn from the pastoral scenery and the people's living habits, with rich local color.
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Use a rough cloth like burlap to rub briskly across the grain.
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This is most stunningly displayed in the show's chief highlight, a re - creation of the dining room first exhibited in the 1903 Arts and Crafts Exhibition organized by Stickley in Syracuse, N.Y. The room incorporates the handsome, massive furniture in a setting where everything from the oak-and-burlap wainscot to the pottery vessels on the table and sideboard was designed or overseen by Stickley himself.
Four-Square Reformer
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We're luring her to a bridal show, then we're gonna stuff her in a burlap sack for a few weeks.
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When I saw that the goblins were wearing burlaps, I did wonder about it.
Interview: George Hardy on Best Worst Movie, Auditioning for Troll 2’s Cocksure Italians, The Status of Troll 2: Part 2, and Dentists on Film! | /Film
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Popular materials include linen, lace, and burlap, but almost any natural fiber material will do as long as it is clean and lint-free.
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Galápagos sharks, hammerheads, blues, duskies - all of their distinctive fins are jammed into black burlap sacks that pile to the ceiling.
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Then she removed her lute, which had been placed within and covered by a burlap sack, and began hooking a strap to it so she could wear it without fear it would drop from her grasp.
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(There are only so many functions where the burlap totes emblazoned with the word "FEED" seemed appropriate, even if Ms. Bush herself wore them to the dressiest galas and balls.) “All the patterns that you see are hand-dyed fabrics that have been dyed in Africa by women in the [Democratic Republic of the Congo],” said Ms. Bush, pointing to the rack of colorful, nipped-waist dresses dyed in a more sophisticated version of tie dye.
Meet Lauren Pierce: 'Incognito' Bush Niece Debuts New Clothing Line
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The basement's big, unused front room must be finished in durable burlaps and grass matting for Uncle Chester; there must be a bath upstairs; two rooms for Aunt May and the girls, one for Grandma, one for Julia and little Anna.
The Story of Julia Page
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Lisa's models wear: crop-jacket pant suit; skirt suit in burlap with her signature raffia handwork, her homage to Bahamian straw basket makers.
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A roll of carpet and some mats stood in a corner, chairs and tables with burlaps round their legs waited here and there, a cot with a mattress on it, evidently to be transformed into a "couch," held packages of bafflingly irregular shapes and sizes.
T. Tembarom
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We'd bring our apples in burlap sacks, whatever we had, Macs, Baldwins, Spies, some Russets if we were lucky, some wild apples for pungency from the woods and hedgerows.
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If applied and rubbed with a cloth, usually burlap, while still soft, the pores fill and the varnish goes on smoothly.
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Line the inside with newspapers, tarpaper, burlap, cloth, an old sheet, the kids school papers - anything you might have on hand to keep the contents from falling out.
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Stitch two burlap rectangles together, with the top left open and frayed.
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Look for a natural fabric with a loose, open weave such as burlap or some types of cotton and linen.
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Fabric wallpaper are usually made of cotton, linen, or other natural plant fibers, such as grass cloth, hemp, or burlap.
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One cold February evening, while he watched the miners trudging 4 home, he spotted5 an old man staggering6 toward him across the fields, wrapped in a burlap 7 sack for warmth.
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Set stakes before filling the planting hole, then tie the tree to the stakes with canvas or burlap strips.
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Burlap bags brimmed with fragrant leaves and chips of various woods.
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Hobbling on a broomstick, with, no doubt, the same weird, wizened face as now, an innate sense of the fitness of things must have suggested the kerchief tied around her big head, and the burlaps rag of an apron in front of her linsey-woolsey rag of a gown, and the bit of broken pipe-stem in the corner of her mouth, where the pipe should have been, and where it was in after years.
Balcony Stories
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While thus engaged, Mr. Richardson's brain was busy with the problem of labor saving, and one day a phantom device for smoothing and rubbing down the first rough coats on the burlaps took form in his mind, and for some weeks he spent his spare time in experimenting.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 1157, March 5, 1898
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Her large installation consisted of 16 columns made of various fabrics, including canvas, jute and burlap, the edges of which were charred and the expanses of which were often painted.
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Celine has hand-sewn lace onto leather, while American brand BCBG Max Azria adapts the current mania for ponyhair by doing patches of it on burlap, instead of all-over ponyhair pieces.
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The application of bands of burlap or "tanglefoot," or of other substances often seen on the trunks of elm trees is useless, since these bands only prevent the larvae from crawling down from the leaves to the base and serve to prevent nothing from crawling up.
Studies of Trees
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I did a paper on torture in college and I can never forget the worst ones: the glass tube shoved into the penis and then broken while the tortured person is forced to drink glass after glass of water, the legs encased in a vise and put in a burlap sack and then pounded with hammers until the burlap is the only thing holding them together.
Land of the Blind
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If the chair needs extra support, strengthen the seat by weaving 1 1/2-inch-wide burlap webbing in both directions in the open area of the seat.
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The material used is heavy tar-board pressed into the form of the roof and strengthened by burlaps.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 315, January 14, 1882
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There were times when I felt it might make more sense to stand in the dark with a burlap sack, yelling, ‘Here, snipe, snipe, snipe!’
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They were made from second-hand jute burlap and scraps of fabric pulled from ragbags and storage bins.
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Nick walked past with a heavy burlap sack over his shoulder.
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J.R. had just read this article in the San Antonio Express-News in which two University of Texas professors claim that in West Texas we refer to burlap bags as gunnysacks whereas in East Texas they are known as croaker sacks.
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In the sanctuary a huge swath of burlap obscured the cross of glory.
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Kristen also lacked style -- Simon, commenting on her dress which could best be described as a burlap sack that fell into a vat of pink Easter egg dye, said it "looked like your Mum styled you.
Undefined
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A sleepy Anna gazes longingly at Ping's empty bed as if thinking "Oh the fun we had, draping each other in burlap and rolling down Madison Avenue!
Una LaMarche: Project Runway Episode 4 Recap: Cooter Couture
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The trunk of the tree is securely wrapped with burlaps or other soft material, and a ring or chain is then secured about it.
Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)
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He was not terrifying in the least in his appearance; his shirt was made of burlap and his boots were muddy and his trousers were patched.
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As she puzzled out his last words, Hinano grinned at her bewilderment and brought her closer to the imu, where three large Hawaiian men were shoveling aside a thick layer of loose sand to reveal what appeared to be a thick covering of kapa cloth, woven mats, and burlap bags.
The Aloha Quilt
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Two of the works were on burlap, the third on jute.
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These folders were used to store the sketch, tracing paper, felt, burlap and any other work in progress for the length of this lesson.
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Some people buy live trees that are balled in burlap instead of a cut tree.
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If you decide to keep them in the ground outside, sink four stakes in a square shape around each stem, then wrap burlap or another thick material around the stakes.
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A curtain of burlaps screened one corner, hiding the toilet arrangements, which would have suggested that the couch served as a bed by night; and the flowering plants at the window, the arrangement of artistic posters and sketches on the walls, and, above all, the neatness and orderliness of the room, proclaimed feminine occupancy.
Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905
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Lisa's models wear: crop-jacket pant suit; skirt suit in burlap with her signature raffia handwork, her homage to Bahamian straw basket makers.
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You can dye burlap any color you need and then rip it into strips about 2 inches wide and sew them on to clothing (or make clothing from more burlap to wear over your regular duds.)
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Much of our clothing comes from them as well - cotton and linen are made from ‘fibers’ of flowering plants, as are rope and burlap, and many commercial dyes are extracted from other flowering plants.
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Jesus was trying to sneak burlap into his garment instead of showcasing it as the main fabric, sewing yard after yard of ribbon over the burlap, creating a lame-o green and brown dress that was later called matronly, and rightfully so.
The Clog
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To protect what we have uncovered, we first cover the bones with tinfoil, then with strips of burlap dipped in plaster.
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Out-of-state buyers drive here to get their chili fix, selecting fat burlap sacks of peppers to go into the roaster.
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He was dressed in a very starchy white shirt that seemed two sizes too big and very ugly pants that seemed to be made of burlap.
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Others, like burlap or grass cloth, are very hard to clean when stained.
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Look for a natural fabric with a loose, open weave such as burlap or some types of cotton and linen.
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Then I wrap it in burlap for a bit of shelter and concealment.
What kind of stand do you use for hunting deer and what do you like about it and dislike about it.
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Tie the ends of the burlap to keep the root ball and soil intact, then lift the shrub - by the burlap and the bottom - into a wheelbarrow and move it to the new spot.
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All potatoes prefer the dark; therefore, storage in a cool place, in a burlap sack or paper bag, is best.
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Plenty of people were missing eyes, and he was clad in an uncomfortable woolen shirt and burlap pants that were dyed a moss green.
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Layer the cover fabrics loosely with the batting in the middle and the lining on the opposite side of the burlap.
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Laden with burlap bags and potato sacks, they boarded trains for whichever destination they could get a ticket as the death toll jumped by 25 per cent in the Chinese capital.
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Fabric wallpaper are usually made of cotton, linen, or other natural plant fibers, such as grass cloth, hemp, or burlap.
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Polish artist Piotr Uklański, for example, is showing a 40-foot-wide, untitled burlap curtain with patches of colorful fabric that evoke American folk art.
The Whitney Biennial Lightens Up
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And here's another tip: Cover the lower trunk sections in tree-wrap paper or burlap strips to ward off animals, sun scorch and errant weedwacker wires.
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Burlap reappears in Work II as the ground on which Jensen painted broad, black brushstrokes suggesting a Japanese mountain landscape.
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These draperies, of cream linen burlap, hang in her own West Vancouver home.
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I have several that haven’t bloomed well, despite being wrapped in burlap over winter.
An experiment in cold protection « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog
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A hideous figure clothed in burlap and with an exploded head reclined in the seat.
RC: HtCGtK, A Hitch « Unknowing
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It is a good practice to put a burlap cloth, cheese cloth or paper towels over the litter for the first week so the young fowl can learn to distinguish the food from the litter.
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Virginia dumped the burlap sacks in an alleyway.
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Look for a natural fabric with a loose, open weave such as burlap or some types of cotton and linen.
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Select one that is potted in a bushel basket or other large container or balled with burlap into a large, firm root ball.
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I need to plant two hemlocks that are seven feet tall, I was wondering if I should untie the burlap sack or just leave it tied on to decompose.
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Two months in advance a burlap and wire mesh girdle was installed, and the final digging to ready the tree was completed a few days before movement.
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As this may require more time than we can take for it in one day, it will be well to cover the exposed roots with some old burlaps or other material until we have them all ready, in order to keep them from drying and from injury.
The First Book of Farming
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Bayou La Batre, Ala., to Galveston, Tex., he became known as the burlap-sack guy.
NYT > Home Page
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Here are my suggestions: Dune's "Nevanna" low wedges, £55, Nicole Farhi's burlap-soled "Gladis" more of a sneaker than an espadrille, but still very cool, £130 and Burberry's buckled leather espadrilles, £250.
Sensible and Stylish Summer Sandals
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The real treasures were in a couple of burlap bags.
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With what a stately march the pictures go in their golden frames along the symphonious, burlap walls!
Walking-Stick Papers
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Fabric wallpaper are usually made of cotton, linen, or other natural plant fibers, such as grass cloth, hemp, or burlap.
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At the base of the camp, a recent avalanche had disgorged burlap sacks, old door frames, mortar boxes, rolls of bailing wire, and pieces of fiberglass.
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This is usually accomplished by covering the piles over with burlaps and saturating with water from a hose; the operation of driving the pile not being attempted until the concrete is at least ten days old.
Concrete Construction Methods and Costs
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He was not terrifying in the least in his appearance; his shirt was made of burlap and his boots were muddy and his trousers were patched.
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These draperies, of cream linen burlap, hang in her own West Vancouver home.
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Each wore an identical grey ankle-length dress made of a rough fabric that reminded him of burlap and white blouses that had turned grey from frequent washing.
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Either I have very soft white virgin sissy buns or these damn grundies are made out of burlap.
A few brief questions......
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He previously appeared with a burlap sack over his head as Scarecrow in Batman Begins, and I'm awaiting his inevitable collaboration with David Lynch.
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A door at the back of the barn opened, and Dad emerged, carrying an old burlap grain sack.
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under the vellum is a sassy little poddle from a vintage bridge score card, pretty pink and white polka dots and blue burlap textured paper.
6 months worth of ATCs
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They beat her with burlap sacks stuffed with beans if she doesn't say the words.
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Placing some form of protection around the trunk, such as burlap, can help in the prevention of sun scald.
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Upholstered burlap panels have been strategically used as a soft counterpoint.
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A door at the back of the barn opened, and Dad emerged, carrying an old burlap grain sack.
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Jake and I rolled her up in the motheaten burlap tarp.
No Mercy
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Somewhere in the distance, barely audible, a tractor trailer loaded with burlap sacks of grass seed pressed its way onto the smooth ribbon of interstate, heading north.
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Grab an orange shirt, green pants, hiking shoes, burlap fabric, and two pairs of green tights.
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Oftentimes this involves using man lifts, which can have trouble maneuvering over curing materials like polyethylene plastic sheets or burlap-bonded plastic coverings.
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To preserve the area's unity with the surrounding hillside, during construction Richardson wrapped the lichens and moss coating the boulders in burlap and kept them moist to protect and sustain them.
