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Nap typically has a direction in which it feels smoothest. In garments, nap direction is often matched across seams, because cloth will not only feel but look different depending on the direction of the nap. For this reason, sewing patterns frequently show the nap direction, or warn that more fabric will be needed if the fabric has a nap.
A raising card is used in the process of gigging, or producing the nap of cloth. [1] Originally, only woolen cloth was raised, but now gigging is used on rayon, silk, and cotton fabrics to create a soft, lustrous nap. [2] Raising is one of the last steps in the finishing process for cloth.
The National Association of Parliamentarians (NAP) is an organization with membership predominantly in the United States that says that it provides services and products to help its members and others to learn how to proceed with and manage meetings of assemblies such as school boards, homeowners associations, church boards, and volunteer organizations.
5 tips for taking a healthy nap. Here’s how to ensure that naps will work in your — and your brain’s — favor. 1. Nap in the afternoon.
Frieze was woven in the English Midlands and Wales, and in Ireland from the fourteenth century, and later in Holland as well. A similar textile is baize. In Old Norse, such cloth was called vaðmál , and lengths of wadmal were a medium of exchange, especially for the poor who had neither cattle nor silver. Wadmal could be used to pay property tax.
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The feel and appearance of its nap is suede-like, [1] less plush than velour and more like felt or chamois. The word is also used for clothing made from this fabric. [2] Clothing made from moleskin is noted for its softness and durability. Some variants of the cloth are so densely woven as to be windproof. [3]
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