It is there, for example, in the irregularly shaped "Medallion" sewn around 1960 by the Mississippi-born Thomas Covington (1877-1979) from narrow rows of cloth printed with trotting horses and birds of paradise.

In one, a professorial W. C. Handy is shown in front of a star-spangled background, while the painter Jacob Lawrence appears in a picture from 1941 seated in front of a cloth printed in interlocking geometric forms.

While the design was little different from the Denison smock, it was made from a lighter-weight cloth, printed in the now-standard Disruptive Pattern Material (DPM).

Chintz is calico cloth printed with flowers and other devices in different colors.

He returned a few days later to meet the proprietors and Bernard, recognizing there was a limit to their own international expansion at this stage, and ever keen to find outlets for the masses of cloth being printed, immediately proposed to Trevaskis that they worked together, not in competition.

Available this season are Christmas tree ornaments painted with menorahs or Kwanzaa lights; wreaths made of cloth printed with dreidels (the spinning toys used in a Hanukkah game); angels with wings, halos and dreidel-print dresses, and Christmas lights that have individual Stars of David.

It has been replaces by cloth printed with a gold paint or a plastic foil.

The state of her own hair is a mystery, since she always wraps her head in a dazzling cloth printed with peacock feathers.

Covering the beds and tables are bright African cloths, printed with Swahili texts.

Enrique Renta sews shirts and trousers from cloth printed with images of raw meat.