1.   He retrieves a leather-bound volume from a back room, bearing it toward a visitor like a gem on a velvet pillow.

2.   Head bowed and hands clasped, John Paul II knelt atop a wine-colored velvet pillow fringed with white thread atop an inscribed silver kneeler.

3.   On the day bed are the velvet pillows from a couch her parents owned, and an afghan made by a cousin.

4.   Oliver Spencer, the British designer, is doing velvet beaded pillows.