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Excelsior, or wood wool. Wood wool, known primarily as excelsior in North America, is a product made of wood slivers cut from logs. It is mainly used in packaging, for cooling pads in home evaporative cooling systems known as swamp coolers, for erosion control mats, and as a raw material for the production of other products such as bonded wood wool boards.
A pile of recycled wool. Recycled wool, also known as rag wool or shoddy is any woollen textile or yarn made by shredding existing fabric and re-spinning the resulting fibres. Textile recycling is an important mechanism for reducing the need for raw wool in manufacturing. Shoddy was invented by Benjamin Law of Batley in 1813.
The original Sports Connection clubs were eventually sold, and in 1987 they also opened their first mega club, the flagship Sports Club/LA, investing $30 million. This 100,000-square foot club included a marble lobby, state of the art equipment, full basketball gym, Olympic pool, hair salon, spa and valet parking.
Also this year, the singer-actor was photographed leaving a Los Angeles gym in a black workout set with one of her go-to Delola-brand bling cups in hand, and carrying a glossy black Birkin.
Waffle fabric, also known as honeycomb fabric, has raised threads that form small rectangles. It can be made by either weaving or knitting. Waffle weave is a further exploitation of plain weave and twill weave which produces a three-dimensional effect. The combination of warp and weft floats creates the structure.
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Scotswomen walking (fulling) woollen cloth, singing a waulking song, 1772 (engraving made by Thomas Pennant on one of his tours). Fulling, also known as tucking or walking (Scots: waukin, hence often spelt waulking in Scottish English), is a step in woollen clothmaking which involves the cleansing of woven cloth (particularly wool) to eliminate oils, dirt, and other impurities, and to make it ...
Barry’s was founded in West Hollywood, Los Angeles in 1998 by Barry Jay, along with his partners, John and Rachel Mumford. [4] The company opened its first studio outside of the United States in 2011, when it debuted in Bergen, Norway . [1]