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In October 1924 Asa T. Bales, a millworker from Missouri, filed a patent for "a sack, the cloth of which is adapted to be used for dress goods after the product has been removed or consumed." [6] Bales assigned the patent to the George P. Plant Milling Company of St. Louis, Missouri, which by 1925 were manufacturing Gingham Girl sacks. [6]
Hay is grass, legumes, or other herbaceous plants that have been cut and dried to be stored for use as animal fodder, either for large grazing animals raised as livestock, such as cattle, horses, goats, and sheep, or for smaller domesticated animals such as rabbits [ 1 ] and guinea pigs. Pigs can eat hay, but do not digest it as efficiently as ...
An ukay-ukay (Tagalog pronunciation: [ˌʔuːkaɪ.ˈʔuːkaɪ] oo-ky-OO-ky), or wagwagan (Ilocano pronunciation: [wɐgˈwaːgɐn] wəg-WAH-gən) is a Philippine store where a mix of secondhand and surplus items such as clothes, bags, shoes and other accessories are sold at a more affordable price. Items commonly sold at ukay-ukay's are imported ...
Cotton production is a $21 billion-per-year industry in the United States, employing over 125,000 people in total, [1] as against growth of forty billion pounds a year from 77 million acres of land covering more than eighty countries. [3] The final estimate of U.S. cotton production in 2012 was 17.31 million bales, [4] with the corresponding ...
John Price Crozer (January 13, 1793 – March 11, 1866) was an American textile manufacturer, banker, president of the board of directors of the American Baptist Publication Society, and philanthropist from Pennsylvania. His mills produced clothing for the US Army and other customers. [1]
Production of cotton was reported at a record high of 15 million bales of 470 lbs each in the form of phutti (seed cotton) during 2014–15; this was an 11% increase compared to the previous season (2013–14). Its phenomenal growth was from 1.38 million bales in 1961 to 11.138 million bales in 2014, with the estimated 2014–15 figures showing ...
Jute is used in the manufacture of fabrics, such as Hessian cloth, sacking, scrim, carpet backing cloth (CBC), and canvas. Hessian is lighter than sacking, and it is used for bags, wrappers, wall-coverings, upholstery, and home furnishings. Sacking, which is a fabric made of heavy jute fibers, has its use in the name.
Grass skirt. Traditional Māori wood carved figure with pāua shell eyes and a piupiu (flax garment worn around the waist), and a tiki. Alongside is a display of weapons and cloaks. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber circa 1900. A grass skirt is a costume and garment made with layers of plant fibres such as grasses and leaves that is ...