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A rya or rye is a traditional Scandinavian wool rug with a long pile of about 1 to 3 inches. [1] They are made using a form of the Ghiordes knot to make the double-sided pile fabric. [2] Though rya means "rug" in English, the original meaning in Sweden of rya was a bed cover with a knotted pile. [3] The first ryas originated in the early ...
Straw lines and a combine harvester. Straw is an agricultural byproduct consisting of the dry stalks of cereal plants after the grain and chaff have been removed. It makes up about half of the yield by weight of cereal crops such as barley, oats, rice, rye and wheat. It has a number of different uses, including fuel, livestock bedding and ...
Rye (Secale cereale) is a grass grown extensively as a grain, a cover crop and a forage crop. It is grown principally in an area from Eastern and Northern Europe into Russia. It is much more tolerant of cold weather and poor soil than other cereals, making it useful in those regions; its vigorous growth suppresses weeds and provides abundant forage for animals early in the yea
Unlike corncob bedding, paper bedding has no adverse effects with consumption. [7] Paper is very absorbent, but when saturated with water or urine, a strong odor results. [6] Straw is a soft, dry stalk containing small grains such as barley, oats, rice, rye, and wheat. Straw is easy to handle and available in most agricultural areas.
Amy Louisa Rye (née, Haslam; after first marriage, Rye; after second marriage, Okey; pen name, Mrs. Francis Rye; [1] 1851 – 24 August 1918) was a British writer and social reformer who emigrated to Canada. She published three books and several articles.
Tick mattress. Ticks being filled with straw by Japanese-American internees at the Poston War Relocation Center in 1942. A tick mattress, bed tick or tick is a large bag made of strong, stiff, tightly-woven material [1] (ticking). This is then filled to make a mattress, with material such as straw, chaff, horsehair, coarse wool or down feathers ...
Bedding, also called bedclothes[1] or bed linen, is the materials laid above the mattress of a bed for hygiene, warmth, protection of the mattress, and decorative effect. Bedding is the removable and washable portion of a human sleeping environment. Multiple sets of bedding for each bed are often washed in rotation and/or changed seasonally to ...
In Britain and Ireland, a workhouse (Welsh: tloty[1] lit. "poor-house") was an institution where those unable to support themselves financially were offered accommodation and employment. In Scotland, they were usually known as poorhouses. The earliest known use of the term workhouse is from 1631, in an account by the mayor of Abingdon reporting ...