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2. Ruff (clothing) - Wikipedia

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   The ruff, which was worn by men, women and children, evolved from the small fabric ruffle at the neck of the shirt or chemise. Ruffs served as changeable pieces of cloth that could themselves be laundered separately while keeping the wearer's doublet or gown from becoming soiled at the neckline. The stiffness of the garment forced upright ...

3. Ruffle (sewing) - Wikipedia

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   In sewing and dressmaking, a ruffle, frill, or furbelow is a strip of fabric, lace or ribbon tightly gathered or pleated on one edge and applied to a garment, bedding, or other textile as a form of trimming. [1] Ruffles can be made from a single layer of fabric (which may need a hem) or a doubled layer. Plain ruffles are usually cut on the ...

4. Collar (clothing) - Wikipedia

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   Today's shirt collars descend from the rectangular band of linen around the neck of 16th century shirts. Separate ruffs exist alongside attached ruffled collars from the mid-16th century, usually to allow starching and other fine finishing, [citation needed] or to make collar-laundering easier.

5. Crochet - Wikipedia

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   Crochet is traditionally worked from a written pattern using standard abbreviations or from a diagram, thus enabling non-English speakers to use English-based patterns. [32] To help counter confusion when reading patterns, a diagramming system using a standard international notation has come into use (illustration, left).

6. Ruffle - Wikipedia

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   Ruffle or ruffles may refer to: Ruffle (sewing), a gathered or pleated strip of fabric; Ruffle (software), a Flash Player emulator written in the Rust programming language; Ruffles (potato chips), a brand of potato chips; Ruffles and flourishes, a fanfare for ceremonial music played on drums and bugles; Ruffle Bar, an island in the US state of ...

7. Seam (sewing) - Wikipedia

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   A seam finish is a treatment that secures and neatens the raw edges of a plain seam to prevent raveling, [7] by sewing over the raw edges or enclosing them in some sort of binding.

8. Knitting - Wikipedia

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   Crochet hooks and a darning needle are often useful in binding/casting off or in joining two knitted pieces edge-to-edge. The darning needle is used in duplicate stitch (also known as Swiss darning). The crochet hook is also essential for repairing dropped stitches and some specialty stitches such as tufting.

9. Livery collar - Wikipedia

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   Various forms of livery were used in the Middle Ages to denote attachment to a great person by friends, servants, and political supporters. The collar, usually of precious metal, was the grandest form of these, usually given by the person the livery denoted to his closest or most important associates, but should not, in the early period, be seen as separate from the wider phenomenon of livery ...