Simon, whose success with Monsoon and Accessorize has earned his family a £600m fortune, founded the company in 1973 after what he describes as a "period of selling shaggy woollen coats on the Portobello Road and hand block-printed clothes from Rajasthan to anyone who would buy them". ❋ Unknown (2011)
A new spring collection of linen block-printed, down-filled pillows from Timothy Paul Bedding + Home might change your mind about your old sofa. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Her mother has signed “Mama” in big, block-printed letters to fill up the bottom of the page. ❋ Ann Beattie (2010)
The Wares: Patterns block-printed by hand using 18th-century techniques and low-VOC water-based inks. ❋ Jen Renzi (2010)
Charles O'Brien, The Callico Printers 'Assistant (London, 1789) 2: n.p. To create the pattern, mordant was block-printed (or, later, roller-printed) onto the prepared cloth. ❋ Unknown (2006)
In large block-printed letters and with a jumble of spelling and punctuation errors, the sincerity of his work shone through. ❋ Jack Canfield (2008)
SHAMELESS PLUG WARNING--if you're interested in a block-printed holiday card, I need to make arrangements before the end of the month! ❋ A. Fortis (2008)
First, an underdrawing is block-printed onto the fabric to guide the shape and placement of the design elements. ❋ Unknown (2006)
And they could all see what was block-printed on the paper. ❋ Hooper, Kay (2004)
He flipped over to the next card, reading Jim his rights from block-printed index cards. ❋ Browne, Richard W (2001)
The earliest extant block-printed edition of Records of the Three ❋ Unknown (1999)
(Wuying dian block-printed edition [omission: Chinese characters]) from the Qing dynasty. 47 This was a redaction of a Ming edition published by the ❋ Unknown (1999)
The kid block-printed cleanly, thought intelligently, wrote with clarity and would have cracked the four killings easy if LAPD had given him an extra day or so. ❋ Ellroy, James, 1948- (1988)
Even the creatures that had been clothing Ayesha -- the elite corps, so to speak -- decamped, and she had to lead the procession dressed in the mundanity of an old cotton sari with a block-printed hem of leaves. ❋ Rushdie, Salman (1967)
Its block-printed copies did not come off the press in ❋ Unknown (1959)
Strapped securely upon their backs were bulging, tightly bound oilskins and pungent, coarse burr-lap wrapped bundles of herbs, spices, and rare woods with which to make the finest idols, furniture, and fixtures, as well as priceless swatches of the most extraordinary block-printed cloth, and gourds of rare, hard-to-obtain dyes - especially scarlet and purple - and a cornucopia's horn of other riches. ❋ Roland Jon Cheney (N/A)
A band of helpers was appointed to teach the passage for the day, and outside the church in an adjoining court was a book-stall, and here a brisk trade was done in hymn-sheets, gospels, and block-printed texts. ❋ Mildred Cable (1915)
In "Nursery Rhymes" (Methuen), the pictures, block-printed in colour by Edmund Evans, are worthy to be placed beside the best books he has produced. ❋ Gleeson White (1874)
