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  • Thumbnail for Tapa cloth
    Tapa cloth (or simply tapa) is a barkcloth made in the islands of the Pacific Ocean, primarily in Tonga, Samoa and Fiji, but as far afield as Niue, Cook...
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    had progressed to an extent that cloths were made "in all the varieties of colour, as well as pattern, [and] they were of an incredible size and weight."...
    15 KB (1,724 words) - 06:03, 8 May 2024
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    Filters made of paper (disposable), cloth (reusable), or plastic, metal or porcelain (permanent) are used. Paper and cloth filters require the use of some...
    65 KB (5,436 words) - 18:52, 30 April 2024
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    Textile (redirect from Rag (cloth))
    material made from yarn, directly from fibers, polymeric film, foam, or any combination of these techniques. Fabric has a broader application than cloth.: 207 ...
    124 KB (10,686 words) - 01:57, 11 May 2024
  • A bolt of cloth is 20 to 25 yards. Reitan, Peter (January 2015). "Origin of The Whole Three/Six/Nine Yards: The Sale of Cloth in Multiples of Threes was...
    25 KB (3,149 words) - 22:38, 21 March 2024
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    household to the mills. In the early decades of the Industrial Revolution, the machinery produced whole cloth. The world's first sewing machine was patented...
    27 KB (3,215 words) - 15:28, 16 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Origin of Latter Day Saint polygamy
    the document ever existed and said of the story told by Young: "It is false in all its parts, made out of whole cloth, without any foundation in truth."...
    86 KB (10,281 words) - 09:03, 27 March 2024
  • termed "made out of whole cloth." The Evening Times-Republican of Marshalltown, Iowa, chided that "These hot-weather tales are liable to float out most any...
    38 KB (4,150 words) - 06:34, 24 April 2024
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    Another interpretation used two cloths and compared them with the body and soul of Christ. Special cloths (not necessarily made of linen) cover the altar in...
    19 KB (2,796 words) - 05:11, 4 June 2023
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    or snooker) provide a flat surface usually made of quarried slate, that is covered with cloth (usually of a tightly woven worsted wool called baize),...
    33 KB (3,957 words) - 11:23, 27 April 2024
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    Akwete cloth is a hand woven textile produced in Igboland for which the town of Akwete, also known as Ndoki, both which the cloth was named after in Abia...
    18 KB (2,252 words) - 00:18, 7 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of quilting
    Whole cloth quilts, broderie perse and medallion quilts were the styles of quilts made during the early 19th century, but from 1840 onward the use of...
    24 KB (2,978 words) - 01:46, 24 March 2024
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    of Turin (Italian: Sindone di Torino), also known as the Holy Shroud (Italian: Sacra Sindone), is a length of linen cloth that bears a faint image of...
    93 KB (10,826 words) - 20:02, 11 May 2024
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    Christopher Evans (outlaw) (category Gunslingers of the American Old West)
    to the Examiner that I have nothing to confess. This story is made out of whole cloth by the railroad people, who are using every effort to prejudice...
    209 KB (33,568 words) - 17:56, 14 April 2024
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    tradition, the Image of Edessa was a holy relic consisting of a square or rectangle of cloth upon which a miraculous image of the face of Jesus had been imprinted—the...
    25 KB (3,370 words) - 17:15, 29 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Latter Day Saint polygamy in the late-19th century
    all its parts, made out of whole cloth, without any foundation in truth." Polygamy was roundly condemned by virtually all sections of the American public...
    51 KB (6,188 words) - 04:04, 18 March 2023
  • Thumbnail for Menstrual pad
    thong/G-string. Some people use a washable or reusable cloth menstrual pad. These are made from a number of types of fabric—most often cotton flannel, bamboo, or...
    24 KB (2,709 words) - 08:42, 16 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ukrainian national clothing
    wedding cloth sash would ease childbirth. Other than red cloth, a wedding sash could be made of an embroidered rushnyk cloth, especially with the Tree of life...
    11 KB (1,205 words) - 19:13, 15 April 2024
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    of the Book of Joshua have led archaeologists like William G. Dever to characterise the story of the fall of Jericho as "invented out of whole cloth"...
    14 KB (1,487 words) - 16:53, 25 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Woodblock printing on textiles
    condition by being covered with wet cloths during the whole process of cutting. The blockcutter commences by carving out the wood around the heavier masses...
    19 KB (2,840 words) - 18:50, 19 April 2024
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