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  2. Ducktail - Wikipedia

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    The "duck's ass" style, with a pompadour. The style required that the hair be combed back around the sides of the head. [4] [5] [6] The teeth edge of a comb was then used to define a central parting running from the crown to the nape at the back of the head, resembling, to many, the rear end of a duck. The hair on the top front of the head was ...

  3. Loom - Wikipedia

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    See subtitles for a step-by-step. 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.

  4. Spool knitting - Wikipedia

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    Spool knitting, loom knitting, corking, French knitting, or tomboy knitting is a form of knitting that uses a spool with a number of nails or pegs around the rim to produce a tube or sheet of fabric. The spool knitting devices are called knitting spools, knitting nancys, knitting frame, knitting loom, or French knitters.

  5. List of knots - Wikipedia

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    Bowen knot (heraldic knot) – not a true knot (an unknot), a continuous loop of rope laid out as an upright square shape with loops at each of the four corners; Bowline – forms a fixed loop at the end of a rope; Boling knot (archaic term for the Bowline) – forms a fixed loop at the end of a rope; Bowline bend

  6. Reed (weaving) - Wikipedia

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    The final step is to cut the wire to the correct length and assemble. The tarred cord that binds the reed together is wrapped around each set of wooden ribs and between the dents to hold the ribs together and at the correct spacing. [5] The length of the metal wire varies depending on the type of fabric and the type of loom being used.

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  8. Nicky knot - Wikipedia

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    The Nicky knot is a way of tying a necktie. It is a self-releasing version of the Pratt knot. [1] Like the Pratt knot, it is tied inside-out. It originated in Milan, Italy and may have been named after Nikita Khrushchev after he visited the city. The knot is larger than the Four-in-hand knot and smaller than the Half-Windsor knot. [2]

  9. Double overhand knot - Wikipedia

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    Tie an overhand knot at the end of a rope but do not tighten the knot down. Pass the end of the line through the loop created by the first overhand knot. Tighten the knot down while sliding it into place at the end of the line. Be sure to leave some tail sticking out from the end of the knot. [7] [8]