His wife and daughter followed soon in a blaze of flowered cotton.

Its unexpected border, a broad swath of demure black flowered cotton, domesticates its bright geometric tension.

She had a backpack slung over her shoulders and wore a pretty, loose old- fashioned dress of flowered cotton with long, white lace-trimmed sleeves.

A thin curtain of faded, fraying flowered cotton divided the two.

The men and women in the flowered cottons reminded me of Key West or the South Seas.

The women washed dresses, pink ginghams and flowered cottons, and they hung them in the sun and stretched the cloth to smooth it.

The lady at the dole office was nicely dressed in flowered cotton, she'd seen Alex cry once and got her some tissues and everything was suddenly made easy.

Women used this cloth to line their everyday quilts and she had it for a frock, this cheap flowered cotton.

Laying a piece of liberally flowered cotton in front of her she hand-spanned it, her long fingers measuring the size needed.

She always wore a flowered cotton overall and her thin gingery hair framed a face that made me think of a martyr in search of grace.