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2. Nest of tables - Wikipedia

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   Nest of tables (also known as nested tables, nesting tables) is a set of few tables with progressively smaller heights and frames, so that they can be stacked when not in use. [1] A smaller table slides inside the frame of a larger one until it engages the edge of the back frame. [2] Typically a set contains three (trio) or four (quartetto ...

3. Shabby chic - Wikipedia

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   Shabby chic is a style of interior design that chooses either furniture and furnishings for their appearance of age and signs of wear and tear or distresses new ones to achieve the same result. Unlike much genuine period décor, this style features a soft, pastel-colored , cottage look.

4. Warp and weft - Wikipedia

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   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]

5. Navajo weaving - Wikipedia

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   Railroad service reached Navajo lands in the early 1880s and resulted in considerable expansion of the market for Navajo woven goods. According to Kathy M'Closkey of the University of Windsor in Ontario , Canada , "wool production more than doubled between 1890 and 1910, yet textile production escalated more than 800%". [ 10 ]

6. Houndstooth - Wikipedia

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   One of the best known early occurrence of houndstooth is the Gerum Cloak, [2] a garment uncovered in a Swedish peat bog, dated to between 360 and 100 BC. [3] Contemporary houndstooth checks may have originated as a pattern in woven tweed cloth from the Scottish Lowlands , [ 4 ] but are now used in many other woven fabric aside from wool.

7. Weaving - Wikipedia

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   Warp and weft in plain weaving A satin weave, common for silk, in which each warp thread floats over 15 weft threads A 3/1 twill, as used in denim. Weaving is a method of textile production in which two distinct sets of yarns or threads are interlaced at right angles to form a fabric or cloth.