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a commercial unit of length or area used to measure finished cloth. Generally speaking, one bolt represents a strip of cloth 100 yards (91.44 meters) long, but the width varies according to the fabric. Cotton bolts are traditionally 42 inches (1.067 meters) wide and wool bolts are usually 60 inches (1.524 meters) wide.
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If the fabric is a single solid colour, or the pattern was komon (a small all-over reversible pattern), the bolt can be cut anywhere. Otherwise, the patterns would be spaced so that it was in the right place relative to where the cloth would be cut (for instance, so that a kimono's hem patterns were located at the hem on all body panels).
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But even past 22:00, the sewing machines - and the people hunched over them - don't stop as more fabric arrives, in trucks so full that bolts of colour sometimes tumble onto the factory floor.
File:Fabric bolt ensemble (7856833718).jpg is an excellent pic of rolls of fabric, not bolts. File:Stoffballen1 fcm.jpg are excellent examples of bolts of cloth, not rolls. File:Bogyoke Ang San Market Yangon.jpg are bolts of fabric, lots of them, some on cardboard formers (known as bolts themselves) and some just folded.
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