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Terrycloth (close-up) Terrycloth wash mitt. Terrycloth, terry cloth, terry cotton, terry towelling, terry, terry towel, Turkish towelling (formerly), or simply towelling is a fabric woven with many protruding loops of thread which can absorb large amounts of water. It can be manufactured by weaving or knitting.
Huckaback. Blended Huck towels are made by keeping warp in cotton and weft in linen. Huckaback [6] is a weave in which the weft yarns are of a relatively lower count, and they are loosely twisted (softly spun), making a floating and absorbing weave. [2] It is woven on a dobby loom that has a mechanism for weaving geometric patterns.
Ortolan bunting. The ortolan (Emberiza hortulana), also called ortolan bunting, is a Eurasian bird in the bunting family Emberizidae, a passerine family now separated by most modern scholars from the finches, Fringillidae. The genus name Emberiza is from Alemannic German Embritz, a bunting. The specific name hortulana is from the Italian name ...
Nap (fabric) A cloth with a nap. Primarily, nap is the raised (fuzzy) surface on certain kinds of cloth, such as velvet or moleskin. Nap can refer additionally to other surfaces that look like the surface of a napped cloth, such as the surface of a felt or beaver hat. Starting around the 14th century, the word referred originally to the ...
Chris Isidore, CNN. October 2, 2024 at 10:21 AM. People are panic-buying toilet paper because of the port strike. There is no need for that. Toilet paper shortages in stores across America are ...
The original files from the practice sessions leading up to the event, saved on a long-lost diskette, have resurfaced and are now being sold for $26 million in a private sale. The files include ...
Some manufacturers and retailers are urging President Joe Biden to invoke a 1947 law as a way to suspend a strike by 45,000 dockworkers that has shut down 36 U.S. ports from Maine to Texas. At ...
A paper towel has the same purposes as conventional towels such as drying hands, wiping windows, dusting, cleaning up spills. However, paper towels can only be used once after they blot wet surfaces. A school teacher in Ashland, Ohio, named Kurt Klier, gave students individual paper squares, so that the single towel in the bathroom would not be ...