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  2. Welspun Living - Wikipedia

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    Welspun Living Limited, previously known as Welspun India Limited, [4] is an Indian textile manufacturing company headquartered in Mumbai. [5] Founded by Balkrishan Goenka in 1985, [ 6 ] the company produces home textile products such as bed linen, terry towels, rugs, and yarn. [ 7 ]

  3. Flatbed trolley - Wikipedia

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    A piano trolley or piano dolly is a two- or four-wheeled trolley featuring a stronger-than-usual frame. [4] They are typically measuring approximately 50 to 80 cm ( 19 + 5 ⁄ 8 to 31 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) long and are used by removals companies for moving pianos.

  4. Linen - Wikipedia

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    A linen handkerchief with drawn thread work around the edges Linen cloth recovered from Qumran Cave 1 near the Dead Sea Flax stem, fiber, yarn and woven and knitted linen textiles. Linen (/ ˈ l ɪ n ə n /) is a textile made from the fibers of the flax plant. Linen is very strong and absorbent and dries faster than cotton. Because of these ...

  5. Linens - Wikipedia

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    Its use in cloth-making also dates back to prehistoric times, in Indian subcontinent, China, Peru and Egypt. The Indian subcontinent was especially well known for high quality cotton cloth as early as 1500 BCE. [1]: 66 Linen was an especially popular cloth during the Middle Ages in Europe, when cotton was

  6. Banyan (clothing) - Wikipedia

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    Banyan" is also commonly used in present-day Indian English and other countries in the Indian subcontinent to mean "vest" or "undershirt". Also called a morning gown , robe de chambre or nightgown , the banyan was a loose, T-shaped gown or kimono-like garment, made of cotton , linen , or silk and worn at home as a sort of dressing gown or ...

  7. Shopping caddy - Wikipedia

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    The trolleys commonly have two parallel wheels on a hand truck style frame (with a handle and stand), but some designs have four or six wheels. In some countries the trolleys are traditionally regarded as being used by pensioner -age women, [ 5 ] [ 6 ] with granny cart being an American slang term for the four-wheeled wire-framed trolleys, [ 7 ...

  8. Flax - Wikipedia

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    In China and India, domesticated flax was cultivated at least 5,000 years ago. [15] Flax was cultivated extensively in ancient Egypt, where the temple walls had paintings of flowering flax, and mummies were embalmed using linen. [16] Egyptian priests wore only linen, as flax was considered a symbol of purity. [17]

  9. Negro cloth - Wikipedia

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    Certain long cloths of coarser varieties and Salampore were among recognized Indian materials; the Dutch merchants called them ''Guinea or Negro cloth.'' [15] [16] [17] ''Guinea cloth'' was a generic term for various inferior Indian piece goods traded for the purpose, [18] such as inexpensive dyed plain and patterned calicoes like stripes and ...