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2. Jo-Ann Stores - Wikipedia

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   Number of employees. 23,000 (2021) Website. www .joann .com. Jo-Ann Stores, LLC, more commonly known as Jo-Ann (stylized as JOANN ), is an American fabric and crafts retail company based in Hudson, Ohio. It operates the retail chains JOANN Fabrics and Crafts and Jo-Ann Etc . As of March 2020, Joann has 865 stores in 49 states.

3. Calico - Wikipedia

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   Calico. Calico ( / ˈkælɪkoʊ /; in British usage since 1505) [1] is a heavy [2] plain-woven textile made from unbleached, and often not fully processed, cotton. It may also contain unseparated husk parts. The fabric is far coarser than muslin, but less coarse and thick than canvas or denim.

4. History of cotton - Wikipedia

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   Imports of calicoes, cheap cotton fabrics from Kozhikode, then known as Calicut, in India, found a mass market among the poor. By 1721 these calicoes threatened British manufacturers, and Parliament passed the Calico Act that banned calicoes for clothing or domestic purposes. In 1774 the act was repealed with the invention of machines that ...

5. Cotton - Wikipedia

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   t. e. Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus Gossypium in the mallow family Malvaceae. The fiber is almost pure cellulose, and can contain minor percentages of waxes, fats, pectins, and water. Under natural conditions, the cotton bolls will increase the ...

6. Muslin - Wikipedia

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   Muslin ( / ˈmʌzlɪn /) is a cotton fabric of plain weave. [ 3] It is made in a wide range of weights from delicate sheers to coarse sheeting. [ 4] It is commonly believed that it gets its name from the city of Mosul, Iraq, but, originally it comes from Dhaki. [ 5][ 6][ 7]

7. Hancock Fabrics - Wikipedia

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   Hancock Fabrics was founded in 1957 in Tupelo, Mississippi by Elaine (1922-2015) and Lawrence Doyce (L.D.) Hancock (1913-1998), started out as a cost-efficient retail store and offered a greater selection of merchandise to its customers at lower prices.