The Victorians used one color for edging, another for the outside walls, another for decorative pieces connected to the house.

VOA: special.2009.06.01

Knitting is a way of creating clothing by looping together long thin pieces of material such as cotton or wool.

VOA: special.2009.04.08

The dictionary says that the word "mosaic" means a picture or design that is made by placing small colored pieces together.

VOA: special.2009.01.02

A textile is a piece of cloth that has been formed by weaving, knitting,pressing or knotting together individual pieces of fiber.

VOA: special.2009.11.04

Remember,frit is crushed up pieces of glass. The glass that I have is a neon green and a bright orange.

VOA: special.2009.05.18

An astronaut who does work outside the space shuttle usually is wearing more than seventeen pieces of protective equipment.

VOA: special.2011.04.06

It says major parts of the program use authority already provided by Congress, but some pieces require approval.

VOA: special.2009.02.20

Then spread loose straw ten to fifteen centimeters deep over the seed pieces and between the planted rows.

VOA: special.2009.03.10

When they have removed all the dirt, they are down to the brass tacks, the copper pieces that hold the boat together.

VOA: special.2010.05.16

They swallowed it whole. Their teeth were used to rip the meat or plants into mouth-sized pieces, but were not used for chewing.

VOA: special.2010.06.04

Inside the yeast cell, the yeast machinery recognized that the two DNA pieces had the same order.

VOA: special.2010.07.20

The project leader says some of the birds place pieces of wood on heavy machinery like bulldozers.

VOA: special.2009.10.06

They were covered with snow. In their branches were pieces of dry grass and wood left by flood waters earlier in the year.

VOA: special.2010.05.01

Pieces of gypsum broke off. The wind wore them away to a size small enough to pick up and carry for short distances.

VOA: special.2010.01.04