enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Bedford cord - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedford_cord

   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 ...

3. Corduroy - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corduroy

   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]

4. Pile (textile) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pile_(textile)

   Pile is the raised surface or nap of a fabric, consisting of upright loops or strands of yarn. [1] Examples of pile textiles are carpets, corduroy, velvet, plush, and Turkish towels . [2] The word is derived from Latin pilus for "hair". [3]

5. Pile weave - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pile_weave

   Corduroy, a textile composed of twisted fibers that, when woven, lie parallel (similar to twill) to one another to form the cloth's distinct pattern, a "cord." Modern corduroy is most commonly composed of tufted cords, sometimes exhibiting a channel (bare to the base fabric) between the tufts. Corduroy is, in essence, a ridged form of velvet.

6. Stem cell therapy to correct heart failure in children could ...

   www.aol.com/stem-cell-therapy-correct-heart...

   Doctors and specialists at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute in Melbourne, Australia, are studying and reprogramming the potential of the blood to treat heart failure in children.

7. Marillyn A. Hewson - Pay Pals - The Huffington Post

   data.huffingtonpost.com/paypals/marillyn-a-hewson

   From January 2008 to December 2012, if you bought shares in companies when Marillyn A. Hewson joined the board, and sold them when she left, you would have a 7.4 percent return on your investment, compared to a -2.8 percent return from the S&P 500.