How To Use Homespun In A Sentence

He was dressed in a worn tricorn, a dark homespun coat, knee-length breeches, dark stocking, and heavy brogue shoes.
It's interesting that he lards the book with homespun stories of his upbringing in Louisiana, because his philosophy of politics and government is very much a community based approach writ large.
The men wear baggy trousers, usually made of indigo-dyed homespun fabric.
Some time about the year 1827, two sturdy lads, tall and well proportioned but clad in homespun and barefooted, came to "Dryden Corners" from the South Hill neighborhood, driving an ox team and bringing to market a wagon load of pine shingles which they had shaved by hand. Living in Dryden: June 2004 Archives
Again, if it is to be left to the parent's taste, and pecuniary means to clothe their children as they please and as they can, the one in braided broad-cloth and velvet cap, and the other in thread-bare homespun, will they meet as friends and equals? Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840

But our haimish breed of armchair soldiers hasn't been confronted with the draft, rationing, or the bill for our foreign adventures; these homespun hawks haven't had to cut back on resources, food, or any comfort, however slight, as part of the war effort. Ben Tripp: It's Time to Grow Up
They make cloth, all cotton; cloth of cotton warp and wool filling called drugget; dimity, a heavy cotton used for coverlets; a yarn jean which has wool warp and filling, and cotton jean which is cotton warp and wool filling; homespun is a heavy cloth, of cotton and wool mixed. Home Life in Colonial Days
Only on isolated frontiers might homespun fabrics still be found; only among urban elites did imported textiles have a substantial market.
Gloria Sáez's attractive costumes for the solo singers were designed to flatter the figure, with flowing velvet for the nobility and homespun for the commoners.
The pizza base (handmade with organic flour) was evidently homespun, with its biscuity, nicely burned crust.
The fabric is all pretty thin 100% cotton homespun stuff so the first thing that immediately leaps to mind is a summer dress for Amelia.
But for simple homespun advice it's hard to fault. The Sun
No longer confined to the realm of the patriot, this homespun yarn has now entered the territory of international and domestic fashion.
Household items like the blare of the telephone's ring and the oppressive murk of Plath's London lighting scheme distort in her mind to create a homespun hell.
Populated by a cast of country drunkards, bigamists, abused women, children and the inevitable dog, these are homespun morality tales.
The humility in her woeful eyes almost disclaims the homespun excellence of her clothes.
‘Do not trust homespun remedies,’ she added as a warning.
The professionalism of the recent past, the thing that made the late '90s art world seem corporate and unsafe, is morphing into something less predictable, more homespun.
If this sounds a little dreary and homespun, let me explain. Times, Sunday Times
It was one of the last of his evocative flights of homespun philosophy.
But our haimish breed of armchair soldiers hasn't been confronted with the draft, rationing, or the bill of our foreign adventures; these homespun hawks haven't had to cut back on resources, food, or any comfort, however slight, as part of the war effort. Ben Tripp: It's Time to Grow Up
In his fashion - homespun and unpolished - but he can talk.
Here are ten examples of homespun medical wisdom. The Sun
This is not some homespun philosophy to make us all feel better.
The cloths she made for her family always looked of finer quality then normal homespun, and wore even longer.
The women wore gowns of very coarse homespun and home-woven cloth, composed of linen and wool, and called linsey-woolsey, very coarse shoes, and sometimes with buckskin gloves of their own manufacture. David Crockett
Out go starched linens, in comes homespun crockery. Times, Sunday Times
His earthy humor, his ability to joke when things seemed darkest, and his endless supply of homespun stories certainly helped him cope with the crises of war.
Married women wear coarse chemises and aprons of homespun linen; and their braided hair coiled on top of the head imparts a coronet shape to the gay cotton kerchief which is folded across the brow and knotted at the nape of the neck. Russian Rambles
The administration that sold itself on simple homespun values and manly virtues has been caught in an act of waspish backstabbing to cover its dishonesty.
So what has all this homespun philosophy got to do with the crisis in public liability insurance?
In support of the nonimportation movements of 1765 and 1769, the Daughters of Liberty used their traditional skills to weave yarn and wool into homemade cloth they called homespun, which made America less dependent on British textiles. History of American Women
The sessions are homespun affairs, filled with truisms and real-life examples that anyone can relate to.
I always used to think when I saw the customary portraits of Franklin, with his spectacles and his Quakerish homespun garb and his bunlike hair, that there was something grannyish about him. Free and Easy
He led a goat dressed in homespun, one of last year's barleycorns tucked above its ear.
The Beauty Pill are a surgically precise band whose compositions perform limber arabesques without losing a step, and Clark's homespun production accentuates every contortion.
He was barely adolescent and wore rough, homespun clothes and a round, hard top hat exactly the same as Adam had sported as a boy.
Traditionally, they wear tunics and sarongs of homespun cotton, dyed red, blue, and black.
Tugging at my neckcloth, I went to the washstand to be met in the mirror by a gangly figure in a threadbare tailcoat and homespun stockings more gray than white.
‘Oh, I was selling some of my homespun yarn to the tailor,’ Emily replied.
Tugging at my neckcloth, I went to the washstand to be met in the mirror by a gangly figure in a threadbare tailcoat and homespun stockings more gray than white.
Showing off the property to its best advantage is all about clean white walls and handcrafted, homespun pieces. Times, Sunday Times
Good homespun clothes… these should disguise you well enough.
the air of homespun country boys
The kids can romp, listen to homespun Santa tales, and decorate a sweet country Christmas tree.
Television programs with unsophisticated or homespun themes that comfort or provide solace.
His earthy humor, his ability to joke when things seemed darkest, and his endless supply of homespun stories certainly helped him cope with the crises of war.
Such was the simple homespun charm of his style it was as if he had stepped in from a parallel universe. Times, Sunday Times
It was of homespun, a mixture of wool and flax called linsey-woolsey, and out of this the dresses of his wife and daughters were made; the wool was shorn from the sheep, which were so scarce that they were never killed for their flesh, except by the wolves, which were very fond of mutton, but had no use for wool. Stories Of Ohio
I have done a bit of homespun research of my own into this group of compounds, of which there are five: butyl, ethyl, isobutyl, methyl and propyl paraben.
Their plain virtues and homespun beliefs are the bedrock of decency and integrity in our nation and in the world.
His natural demeanor can seem a tad tepid, but at least he's not trying to be a jittery homespun Hepburn like his famous co-star.
Yet it is never slick or glib; instead, it exudes a guileless, homespun warmth.
And it features plenty of the homespun surrealism, off-centre philosophy and goofy non-sequiturs that have given Young's work much of its character.
The roads were thronged with petty chapmen, with their news-sheets, tracts, almanacs, cautionary tales, pamphlets full of homespun wisdom; pedlars with trinkets of all sorts; and travelling entertainers.
When, contrary to the old-established custom of the demagogue, the little politician in homespun had confided to the men in front of him what he thought of them, he told them that the Woman's Movement which they held themselves so clever for ridiculing, was in much the same position to-day as the Extension of Suffrage for men was in '67. The Convert
His natural demeanor can seem a tad tepid, but at least he's not trying to be a jittery homespun Hepburn like his famous co-star.
Despite the homespun image it cultivates in its ads, it operates with an arrogance and avarice that would make the multinationals blush and John D. Rockefeller envious.
We were not into "khaddar" those days but somehow, emotion got the better of us and we wore the homespun cloth. The Hindu - Front Page
The Philosopher's Room is a heady mix of high art and popular culture, decorated with samplers embroidered with witty, mock-homespun proverbs.
New employees are given a little book that combines Woodroffe's story with his homespun philosophy of success.
Four sturdy countrymen in homespun came striding confidently, two with bows strung and slung ready for action, one shouldering a billhook, and the fourth a long, handled pikel. A Caregiver's Homage To The Very Old
The two sisters who founded the label in 2005, Laura and Kate Mulleavy, created a new vision of gentle, feminine beauty, in a palette based on the colours of earth and sky, and a homespun patchwork of fabrics such as crinkled silk, linen, and wool gauze. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
We are homebodies - we love home ownership, homespun, homemade, home-grown, home improvements. Times, Sunday Times
Out go starched linens, in comes homespun crockery. Times, Sunday Times
a dark, melancholy man, clad in homespun, whose peculiar mission was to turn his name hind part before and use as few words as possible. Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature
His collection of autobiographical essays is studded with the kind of homespun homilies so beloved of salty old backwoodsmen and Presidential candidates: ‘Hard work is where a man finds peace,’ for example.
[Page 146] not take his view of it, and we think it hypocrisy objecting to a fallen woman in homespun on the stage, when a fallen woman in satin has been the theme of such a great number of plays that have been passed. ' Our Irish Theatre: A Chapter of Autobiography
The roads were thronged with petty chapmen, with their news-sheets, tracts, almanacs, cautionary tales, pamphlets full of homespun wisdom; pedlars with trinkets of all sorts; and travelling entertainers.
Franklin was the homespun wit, Jefferson the far-reaching pen, Adams the sober prophet behind the revolutionary moment.
homespun garments
Tall and gawky as he was in person, with tow-colored hair, and a scanty suit of shabbiest homespun, his appearance excited astonishment or ridicule wherever he went.
The Lion Homespun turns into friz much too easily when it's left hanging loose; various people recommend knotting the ends, but I think it's safer to buy matching yarn that will fringe properly. Archive 2007-10-01
homespun linen
It was of homespun, a mixture of wool and flax called linsey-woolsey, 15 and out of this the dresses of his wife and daughters were made. Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year
Many of them are not businesses on the traditional model at all, but homespun affairs staffed by teenagers and run out of bedrooms and even pubs.
Gotye, who in a high vocal register can sound like Peter Gabriel or Sting, recorded this album in his parents' barn near Melbourne, where he crossbred electronic elements with homespun sounds. The Short List
Andy Rooney was America's bemused uncle, spouting homespun wisdom weekly at the end of "60 Minutes," a soupcon of topical relief after the news magazine's harder-hitting segments. Curmudgeonly Commentator Andy Rooney Dies
The homespun girl trio weaves melodies in and out on guitar, mandolin, harmonica, ukulele and banjo as vocals float across each note.
Donegal was originally a thick and warm homespun or tweed woven by Irish peasants in Donegal, Ireland.
The book is simple homespun philosophy.
At her feet, knelt a boy dressed in homespun cotton fringed with red indígena motifs. Walking the walk, talking the talk - Fiesta de Guadalupe in Puerto Vallarta
The book is simple homespun philosophy.
For example, Wright's chair features maple supports and upholstery in a cotton and wool fabric that has the texture of homespun.
His earthy humor, his ability to joke when things seemed darkest, and his endless supply of homespun stories certainly helped him cope with the crises of war.
Homespun is a cloth of coarse weave.
If this sounds a little dreary and homespun, let me explain. Times, Sunday Times
They wear a uniform - blouse and trousers - of a bright homespun material, without any facings, but with brass buttons and collar ornaments.
Wigan's improvement since losing their first two matches has been both remarkable and romantic - a heart-warming tale of homespun success in these increasingly mercenary times.
When Gen. Franks utters them, the words spin off his lips with a warm homespun flavor.
I mean: there they are, all multiethnic yet homespun, chock-full of scrimpy rightwing family values, thinking globally and acting locally, checking their ten-dollar Indian laptops to see whose turn it is to turn the compost heap ... Warren Ellis
She was poorly dressed in a gown of murrey homespun, whose clumsy folds did nothing to disguise the signs of pregnancy. The Wicked Day
Already famous as the inventor of the lightning conductor, his homespun philosophizing and simple style charmed the world of the Court and the intellectual salons alike.
A homespun account of Britain's malaise has done for George Osborne what snaps of taut jodhpurs have done for Jilly Cooper's sales. Labour and the deficit: Stumbling towards a strategy | Editorial
The humility in her woeful eyes almost disclaims the homespun excellence of her clothes.
Tweed is a rough textured wool, originally homespun and slightly felted.
His pieces have a simple, homespun character that is notably independent of Western influences, and the large repertory of early 19th-century polonaises, including the earliest attempts by Chopin, owed a good deal to his model.
His collection of autobiographical essays is studded with the kind of homespun homilies so beloved of salty old backwoodsmen and Presidential candidates: ‘Hard work is where a man finds peace,’ for example.
Both male and female folk costumes made of homespun cloth and sheepskin were multi-colored and featured intricate embroidery.
While Buffett's homespun charm makes him popular with Washington types, for example, Malone earned the nickname "Darth Vader" from Al Gore when the former vice president was still a senator, according to the 2002 biography "Cable Cowboy. Reuters: Press Release
In his brown homespun and veldschoen he did not look like a rich cattleman. When the Lion Feeds
His mother had spun and woven flax and wool; his father had operated a wool-carding mill and a shop for pressing and dyeing homespun cloth.
Goods manufactured under this classification include cotton warp checks and mixtures; all wool homespuns, mixture coatings and suitings, storm skirtings, rainproof cloths. Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades
But what energises Bloom's deceptively simple book is not the homespun wisdom, but the extraordinary energy which he invests in his writing.
Its origin can be traced to the Indus Valley civilisation when the people used homespun cotton for weaving.
The one content to doze away life with as little labor as possible and all the enjoyment compassable; his log hut, wool hat, homespun suit, and corn and bacon the limits of his desires ...; loving his gun and his horse, addicted to tobacco and strong drink, quick to anger, a dangerous enemy, and a fast friend. The Rise of Cotton Mills in the South
In the past, clothing was most often rough homespun cloth made from their own cotton, but today manufactured fabric or store-bought clothes are increasingly common.
Being a bit of a Gordon Sinclair addict myself -- you know, when I did Front Page Challenge recently Mr. Sinclair was so nice to me he didn't even ask me what my salary was -- I believe in homespun philosophy. Bermuda Calling
In an earlier edition, this also appeared: "Even George W Bush, who tried to portray himself as a homespun Texas rancher, would put on white tie and tails when banqueting with the Queen of England" Cameron has spent years trying to play down his privileged background ..., 22 April, page 5, G2. Corrections and clarifications
There could even be a variety of homespun cottage industries that might sprout up in conjunction with the city, and could thrive and flourish as viable and even vital parts of it.
Oliver's voice in silent darkness announced that this performance, given free, was dedicated to the memory of his top-flight groom, Mona Watkins, a homespun Welshwoman from the valleys. The Elvis Latte
Silently, Myra helped me slip the red dress off, and I quickly dressed myself in the thick homespun trousers and woolen shirt.
Even George W Bush, who tried to portray himself as a homespun Texas rancher, would put on white tie and tails when banqueting with the Queen of England. David Cameron reverts to type for the royal wedding | Alexander Chancellor
However, I must not indulge in homespun wisdom here before so distinguished an assembly, especially as I am to be followed by a representative of science. Knut Hamsun - Banquet Speech
The gilded youth's judgment tended toward the more pronounced herringbones and homespuns. Success A Novel
Women dressed up in fancy homespun cotton dresses and men wore their jeans, cowboy belts, silk, striped shirts.
The botanist's outpourings were a mix of empirical science, homespun philosophy and despair at human nature. PHYLLOXERA: How Wine was Saved for the World
There's something homespun, simple, and heroic about him.
And he did it, too, wearing homespun clothes and taking his spinning wheel to political meetings. Times, Sunday Times
Frenchman who was brought into Penobscot, dressed in homespun, and sent to meeting. CHAPTER XVIII
But she said he would benefit most from a piece of simple homespun advice.
The homespun quality of his materials and processes reveals, rather than masks, a keen formal and historical sensibility, while also serving his devastating wit and cold eye for high-art academicism.
A certain homespun, unassuming, untidy tininess had become a virtue in itself.
These immensely appealing paintings feature vivid colors, slathered impasto and homespun comedy.
Inspired by primitivism and American folk art, he painted idealized images of homespun America.
Doll makers dressed their creations in homespun materials or in clothing found in mountain stores.
She is conscious that her simple, homespun style left her open to misinterpretation.
I have done a bit of homespun research of my own into this group of compounds, of which there are five: butyl, ethyl, isobutyl, methyl and propyl paraben.
Precisely the kind of person you would expect to turn homespun tranquillity into turmoil and bedlam with her very presence.
Inspired by primitivism and American folk art, he painted idealized images of homespun America.
These homespun medications were sold by itinerant hucksters, pharmacies, and whoever could spellbind a listener with lofty promises of cure.
His patient rise from humble origins to eminence, his simple tastes and homespun manner, inspired general affection.
Out go starched linens, in comes homespun crockery. Times, Sunday Times
‘Chocolate would be fine,’ she said, taking a seat at the table nearest the counter and hanging her gray wool cloak on a peg on the wall, revealing that she was wearing a light blue homespun dress.
She slipped it over her head and loved the feel of such smooth fabric after more than a month of coarse homespun.
Nor did he, like Franklin, turn his unprepossessing physique to his own advantage, creating a homespun, backwoods, authentically ‘American’ persona.
Showing off the property to its best advantage is all about clean white walls and handcrafted, homespun pieces. Times, Sunday Times
On embarking for the court, Joan traded her red gown of peasant homespun for elite male garb.
If you are handy with a jig saw, cut out hearts and stars from thin wood, then paint and hang with raffia for a homespun look, or even easier make your ornaments from salt dough.
Davenport's purposefully low-tech sculptures maintain a good balance of homespun craftsmanship and conceptual artistry.
Yet it is never slick or glib; instead, it exudes a guileless, homespun warmth.
But here was a real pro, oozing homespun fireside wisdoms - his beard big and bushy enough to hide a flock of starlings, little round specs, big red boots and rouged cheeks.
Here are ten examples of homespun medical wisdom. The Sun
Women wear long, homespun skirts and sweaters.
They wear a uniform - blouse and trousers - of a bright homespun material, without any facings, but with brass buttons and collar ornaments.
Out go starched linens, in comes homespun crockery. Times, Sunday Times
I think his slightly frumpy, rumpled, homespun manner would go well with Obama's supersmooth more classical presentation. Obama Campaigning With Potential VPs Today In Virginia
The early immigrants were usually clothed in homespun cloth and caps.
Traditional homespun tweed trousers are still sometimes worn by Aran Islander men.
a sweater knitted of nubbly homespun yarns
His collarless shirt, though of simple homespun muslin, was very comfortable, and half-unlaced at the moment.
It almost seemed to be like the homespun cloth her shoulder sash was made from.
The people wore ragged homespun and the women with painted faces, faded finery.
She looked no more than five and a half feet tall, and she wore a simple, pale red dress of homespun cotton.

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