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  2. Reed mat (craft) - Wikipedia

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    In Japan, a traditional reed mat is the tatami (畳). Tatami are covered with a weft-faced weave of soft rush ( 藺草 , igusa ) ( common rush ), on a warp of hemp or weaker cotton. There are four warps per weft shed , two at each end (or sometimes two per shed, one at each end, to cut costs).

  3. Taiwanese units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    The measurement refers to the traditional size of a Japanese flooring mat called a Tatami mat (made of woven dried grass) which were positioned to completely cover the floor of traditional Japanese homes, therefore it became a convenient measurement tool as mat area was standardised hundreds of years ago.

  4. Tatami - Wikipedia

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    A half mat is called a hanjō (半畳), and a mat of three-quarter length is called a daimedatami (大目畳 or 台目畳), which is used in tea-ceremony rooms . [ 4 ] In Japan, the size of a room is usually measured in relation to the size of tatami mats ( -畳 , -jō ) , about 1.653 m 2 (17.79 sq ft) for a standard Nagoya-size tatami.

  5. Japanese units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    [10] [9] Industry transitioned gradually at its own expense, with compliance sometimes being nominal, as in the case of 1 ⁄ 4-inch (6.35 mm) screws becoming "1 ⁄ 4 screws". [11] Since the original fines for noncompliance were around $ 140 and governmental agencies mostly preferred to wait for voluntary conversion, metric use by December ...

  6. Gebu (high steward) - Wikipedia

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    Gebu is only known from one statue. At Thebes, a grandorite statue of Gebu sitting with crossed-legs was found in the Temple of Amun at Karnak. [1] [2] [3] Inscriptions show that the statue was a gift from an unnamed king and dedicated to the god Amun. The stylistic features put it to the late Twelfth Dynasty or early Thirteenth Dynasty.

  7. Units of textile measurement - Wikipedia

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    One momme = 4.340 g/m 2; 8 mommes is approximately 1 ounce per square yard or 35 g/m 2. The momme is based on the standard width of silk of 45 inches (1.1 m) wide (though silk is regularly produced in 55-inch (1.4 m) widths and uncommonly in larger widths). The usual range of momme weight for different weaves of silk are: Habutai—5 to 16 mm

  8. Millimetre - Wikipedia

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    Different lengths as in respect to the electromagnetic spectrum, measured by the metre and its derived scales.The microwave is between 1 meter to 1 millimeter.. The millimetre (international spelling; SI unit symbol mm) or millimeter (American spelling) is a unit of length in the International System of Units (SI), equal to one thousandth of a metre, which is the SI base unit of length.

  9. Cutting mat - Wikipedia

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    Image of a photo album, where the cutting mat below shows the scale by lines every 10 mm, as well as a color chart being used to document colors. Many cutting mats are plastic sheets in the sizes A4 (297 × 210 mm) or A5 (210 × 148 mm), but there are also larger sheets in A1 (841 × 594 mm, or possibly 900 × 600 mm) or larger. [6]