beadings

Updated: May 11, 2025

The panes of the windows were numerous and small; inside, on the sashes, lay long thin scarlet sausages of red cloth and sawdust, to keep out the draughts. The door was divided into eight small panels with elaborate beadings, and over it was a delicate fanlight one of about a score in Bursley to remind the observer of a lost elegance.

Arnold Bennett - Helen with the High Hand (2nd ed.)

In the corner by the window were massed together quite an imposing collection of "burial cards," memorialising McNab connections dead and gone, all framed to match in black bands with silver beadings. Anything less homelike and inviting can hardly be imagined to welcome tired travellers at the end of a long and chilly journey.

Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey - Big Game: A Story for Girls