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  2. Corduroy - Wikipedia

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    Corduroy is a textile with a distinctively raised "cord" or wale texture. Modern corduroy is most commonly composed of tufted cords, sometimes exhibiting a channel (bare to the base fabric) between them. Both velvet and corduroy derive from fustian fabric. Corduroy looks as if it is made from multiple cords laid parallel to each other. [1]

  3. Fustian - Wikipedia

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    In corduroy, there were seven ridges to the inch, so along a 31-inch (790 mm) bolt, there would be about 320 cuts to be done. [ 8 ] In the 1860s, the cloth would be stretched over a 22-yard-long (20 m) table, and the cutters would walk the length of the table as many times as was necessary.

  4. Bedford cord - Wikipedia

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    Bedford cord, named after the town of New Bedford, Massachusetts, a famous 19th century textile manufacturing city, is a durable fabric that resembles corduroy. The weave has faint lengthwise ridges, but without the filling yarns that make the distinct wales characteristic of corduroy. It can have the appearance of narrow-width stripes with ...

  5. The Corduroy Couch Is Having a Moment - AOL

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    Corduroy was a commonly used material for both furniture and clothing in the 1970s, which was a fun and charismatic time for design, so we’re all for bringing it back in a big way.

  6. Spanish colonization of the Americas - Wikipedia

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    Expeditions continued into the 1540s and regional capitals founded by the 1550s. Among the most notable expeditions are Hernando de Soto into southeast North America, leaving from Cuba (1539–1542); Francisco Vázquez de Coronado to northern Mexico (1540–1542), and Gonzalo Pizarro to Amazonia, leaving from Quito, Ecuador (1541–1542). [51]

  7. Overalls - Wikipedia

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    Overalls were originally made of denim, but they can also be made of other materials such as corduroy, chino cloth, or leather. Overalls were invented in the mid to late 1890s by Grace Howard and Jacob W. Davis at Levi Strauss & Co. , but they went through an evolution to reach their modern form. [ 3 ]

  8. Talk:Corduroy - Wikipedia

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    Corduroy is a type of fustian, a stout cloth typified by the weaving of floats onto one side of the cloth. To make corduroy you weave cotton with a twill weave adding floats in the weft. The floats are then cut into ridges called wales, and brushed to form the characteristic pile.

  9. Republic of Cuba (1902–1959) - Wikipedia

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    The most meaningful impact on Cuba that World War 1 had was on its sugar trade as much of the world's European supply was cut off with demand exploding along with profits from the industry. [53] Cuba later ended up signing the Treaty of Versailles. Cuba was a member of the League of Nations and later on its successor, the United Nations (UN).