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The word Chobi with its various spellings and transliterations ("choobi", "choubi", "chubi") is an attribution from the word “choob” with a long vowel of ”oo” as it sounds in book. “Choob” literally means wood and originally is a Persian word that is used for the same meaning in Urdu as well as some parts of India.
A Pakistani rug (Urdu: پاکستانی قالین, romanized: Pakistani Qaleen), also known as Pakistani carpet (Urdu: پاکستانی فرش, romanized: Pakistani Farsh), is a type of handmade floor-covering heavy textile traditionally made in Pakistan and is used for a wide variety of utilitarian and symbolic purposes.
Arabic typography is the typography of letters, graphemes, characters or text in Arabic script, for example for writing Arabic, Persian, or Urdu. 16th century Arabic typography was a by-product of Latin typography with Syriac and Latin proportions and aesthetics.
Cotton is the largest segment of textile production. Other fibers produced include synthetic fiber, filament yarn, art silk, wool, and jute. [8] Cotton: Cotton spinning is perhaps the most important segment in the Pakistan textile industry with 521 units installed and operational. [8]
In the manufacture of cloth, warp and weft are the two basic components in weaving to transform thread and yarn into textile fabrics. The vertical warp yarns are held stationary in tension on a loom (frame) while the horizontal weft (also called the woof) is drawn through (inserted over and under) the warp thread. [1]
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The type of wool from which these caps are made is popularly known as astar, astarkhan, broadtail, qaraqulcha and Irani menda. The literal meaning of Karakul, which is a Turkish word, is black lake. The literal meaning of Karakul, which is a Turkish word, is black lake.
Can we imagine ourselves back on that awful day in the summer of 2010, in the hot firefight that went on for nine hours? Men frenzied with exhaustion and reckless exuberance, eyes and throats burning from dust and smoke, in a battle that erupted after Taliban insurgents castrated a young boy in the village, knowing his family would summon nearby Marines for help and the Marines would come ...