He's actually pretty likeable and charismatic, but definitely thinks highly of himself and his work (albeit with good reason: he's had pieces featured in W magazine and does "featherwork" for Marchesa). ❋ Unknown (2009)
One final branch includes toys, leatherwork, stonecutting, wax, pattern-cut paper (papel picado), corn leaves, featherwork, straw painting (popoteria), and pasta de caña (sculpture made from a mixture using the inner core of cornstalks). ❋ Unknown (2008)
He also complains that his look is wearing him out because there is so much featherwork. ❋ Unknown (2009)
As samples of Mexican treasures, along with featherwork, textiles, gold and jewels, Cortés sent a sack of beans to Carlos V. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Gone the sand pictures, the featherwork scenes, pictures without paint that so had charmed his childish mind: all that jumble of ornament and garnish that marked the high reign of the old Queen. ❋ Jamie O’Neill (2002)
There is evidence fr9m some of the memorials dug up around Mexico City that other states looked upon City-of-the-Pyramid as the apex of accomplishment, and the decorated pottery and featherwork produced in the high valley was treasured even as far south as present-day Guatemala. ❋ Michener, James (1992)
Change occurred in all things: religon changed from wild vitality to stately formalism; government became stable and self-perpetuating; and what in Tahiti was merely ornamental featherwork became in Hawaii a subtle art of rare beauty. ❋ Michener, James (1959)
Natives came down to the shore, bringing their beautiful featherwork cloaks and golden ornaments. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Descending from his litter, Montezuma then advanced under a canopy of gaudy featherwork powdered with jewels and fringed with silver. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Nine of these there were in a quiver of tanned leather, adorned with featherwork and gold beads, so that I did not doubt but that their late owner had been of some account among his fellows. ❋ Jeffery Farnol (1915)
A fringed Indian hammock from Aroa, gay with coloured featherwork, had been swung judiciously in a corner that caught the early sun; for the mornings are cool in Sulaco. ❋ Unknown (1904)
The magazines were stored with robes of cotton and featherwork, gold sandals and slippers, and dresses composed entirely of beads of gold. ❋ Andrew Lang (1900)
Even then Bruno could not help realising those facts, although his ears were tingling sharply with the harsh accents falling from a far different pair of lips, those of a tall, muscular warrior whose form was gorgeously arrayed in featherwork and cunning weaving, rich-hued dyes having been called to aid the other arts as well. ❋ Unknown (1898)
The bodies of some were covered with golden coats of mail and mantles of featherwork, and their skulls protected by painted wooden helms, crested with hair, and fashioned like the heads of pumas, snakes, or wolves -- others wore escaupils, or coats of quilted cotton, but the most of them were naked except for a cloth about the loins. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)
