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  2. Malden Mills - Wikipedia

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    Malden Mills Industries is the original developer and manufacturer of Polartec polar fleece and manufactures other modern textiles. The company is located in Andover, Massachusetts and has operations in Hudson, New Hampshire .

  3. 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

  4. Composition of Yards and Perches - Wikipedia

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    It is ordained that 3 grains of barley dry and round do make an inch, 12 inches make 1 foot, 3 feet make 1 yard, 5 yards and a half make a perch, and 40 perches in length and 4 in breadth make an acre. [2] [3]: 277 A similar statement is made in Liber Horn (as published in The Statutes of the Realm):

  5. Polar fleece - Wikipedia

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    Polar fleece is a soft fabric made from polyester that is napped and insulating. PolarFleece is a trademark registered by Malden Mills (now Polartec, LLC) with the United States Patent and Trademark Office on October 6, 1981. [ 1 ]

  6. Fleece - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 20 September 2024, at 05:10 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.

  7. Alpaca fiber - Wikipedia

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    Alpaca fleece, Wool Expo, Armidale, NSW Spinning alpaca wool by Treadle wheel, Gotthard Pass, 2018. Yarn spun from alpaca wool. Alpaca scarf. Cambridge Food, Garden and Produce Festival, England. Alpaca fleece is the natural fiber harvested from an alpaca. There are two different types of alpaca fleece. The most common fleece type comes from a ...

  8. William Proxmire - Wikipedia

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    Winners of the Golden Fleece Award included governmental organizations like the United States Department of Defense, [64] Bureau of Land Management, [65] and National Park Service. [ 66 ] The first Golden Fleece Award was awarded in 1975 to the National Science Foundation for funding an $84,000 study on why people fall in love. [ 4 ]

  9. English units - Wikipedia

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    The Compositio redefined the yard, foot, inch, and barleycorn to 10 ⁄ 11 of their previous value. [dubious – discuss] However, it retained the Anglo-Saxon rod of 15 x 11 ⁄ 10 feet (5.03 metres) and the acre of 4 × 40 square rods. Thus, the rod went from 5 old yards to 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 new yards, or 15 old feet to 16 + 1 ⁄ 2 new feet. The ...