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2. Nallıhan silk needlelace - Wikipedia

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   Nallıhan silk needlelace (Turkish: Nallıhan ipek iğne oyası) is a needle lace (Turkish: Oya) from Nallıhan in Ankara, Turkey handcrafted using a needle and silk thread. [1] Silk farming has been done traditionally for centuries in Nallıhan. One room of almost every house in town is reserved for silkworm cocoons. Today, local women produce ...

3. Tsumugi (cloth) - Wikipedia

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   Hand pulled cotton threads, dyed with natural dyes and woven into stripes and checks. Hand pulled silk threads are also woven into only the weft. Tosa men tsumugi: Kagami, Kōchi (Kami) Ueda tsumugi: 上田島紬: Ueda, Nagano: Ueda tsumugi is always striped and is sometimes referred to as ueda jima (jima meaning "stripes"). Ushikubi tsumugi ...

4. Thread (yarn) - Wikipedia

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   Today, thread can also be made of many different materials including but not limited to cotton, wool, flax, nylon, silk, polyester etc. There are also metal threads (sometimes used in decorative textiles), which can be made of fine wire. Thread is similar to yarn, cord, twine, or string, and there is some overlap between the way these terms are ...

5. Nonotuck Silk Company - Wikipedia

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   In 1922, the Nonotuck Silk Company and the Brainerd and Armstrong Company merged and ten years later the Corticelli Silk Company merged with the Belding-Hemingway Company. [3] The company went out of business in 1930. Grove Hill Mansion was built in 1880 for one of the company's directors. The Smithsonian Museum of American History has a ...

6. Zari - Wikipedia

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   'Banarasi sari' from Varanasi (Banaras), silk and gold-wrapped silk yarn with supplementary weft brocade (zari) Zari (or jari) is an even thread traditionally made of fine gold or silver used in traditional Indian, Bangladeshi and Pakistani garments, especially as brocade in saris etc. [1] This thread is woven into fabrics, primarily silk, to make intricate patterns and elaborate designs of ...

7. Irere (Alexander McQueen collection) - Wikipedia

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   Jerkin of silk and metallic thread, made 1570–1580 Modern Bororo youth wearing a traditional feathered headdress Irere (Spring/Summer 2003) was the twenty-first collection McQueen designed for his eponymous fashion house .