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2. Bed sheet - Wikipedia

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   A bottom sheet is laid above the mattress, and may be either a flat sheet or a fitted sheet (a sheet which has been sewn with elastic or a drawstring along the hem of the top, sides and bottom of the sheet to prevent it from slipping off the mattress). A top sheet, in the many countries where they are used, is a flat sheet, which is placed ...

3. Cotton paper - Wikipedia

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   Cotton paper is typically graded as 25%, 50%, or 100% cotton. Usually it can be checked by holding the cotton paper up to the light and looking just below the watermark for a number. 100% cotton paper may contain small amounts of acids, and should be tested or certified before use for archival documents.

4. Units of textile measurement - Wikipedia

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   Textile fibers, threads, yarns and fabrics are measured in a multiplicity of units.. A fiber, a single filament of natural material, such as cotton, linen or wool, or artificial material such as nylon, polyester, metal or mineral fiber, or human-made cellulosic fibre like viscose, Modal, Lyocell or other rayon fiber is measured in terms of linear mass density, the weight of a given length of ...

5. Loom - Wikipedia

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   The wide, flat stick is a sword batten; it is inserted lengthwise into each shed, and used to clear the shed, get it wide open and smooth, and to batten. [6] Weaving a silk rebozo with a dyed-warp pattern on a backstrap loom, Taller Escuela de Rebocería in Santa María del Río, San Luis Potosí , Mexico.

6. Listed buildings in Lancaster, Lancashire (central area ...

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   During this century some industry, including cotton mills and the manufacture of linoleum, was established but never thrived. [1] There are listed buildings related to all of these aspects of the town's history. Almost all the listed buildings are constructed in local sandstone, [2] and most have slate roofs. A high proportion of the listed ...

7. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

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   flat (n.) self-contained housing unit (US: apartment) (adj., of a battery) discharged, exhausted, dead (adj.) level and smooth structured at a single level, not hierarchical (n.) a flat tyre/tire * an apartment that occupies the entire floor of a small building (San Francisco and upstate New York); used also in phrases such as railroad flat ...