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A clothes hanger, coat hanger, or coathanger, or simply a hanger, is a hanging device in the shape/contour of: Human shoulders designed to facilitate the hanging of a coat , jacket , sweater , shirt , blouse or dress in a manner that prevents wrinkles , with a lower bar for the hanging of trousers or skirts .
A velvet painting is a type of painting distinguished by the use of velvet (usually black velvet) as the support, in place of canvas, paper, or similar materials. The velvet provides an especially dark background against which colors stand out.
Weave details visible on a purple-colored velvet fabric. Velvet is a type of woven fabric with a dense, even pile [1] that gives it a distinctive soft feel. Historically, velvet was typically made from silk. Modern velvet can be made from silk, linen, cotton, wool, synthetic fibers, silk-cotton blends, or synthetic-natural fiber blends. [2]
A notch code is a set of notches or recesses cut into the edge of a piece of sheet film to provide a tactile way to identify the film brand, type, and processing chemistry (e.g. black and white, color negative, or color reversal) in the dark. It enables photographers to identify the emulsion side of the film when loading sheet film holders, and ...
Strap hinges continued to dominate in the marketplace for hanging shutters. Drive pintles started to be replaced by similar pintles cut off and mounted on a piece of thin plate material and again fastened with the new screws. This is the precursor of the "plate pintle". [citation needed] Changes in construction have been noted in the same period.
Velvet is an algorithm package that has been designed to deal with de novo genome assembly and short read sequencing alignments. This is achieved through the manipulation of de Bruijn graphs for genomic sequence assembly via the removal of errors and the simplification of repeated regions. [ 2 ]
The most prominent and best recorded use of the split tally stick or "nick-stick" [7] [8] being used as a form of currency [9] was when Henry I introduced the tally stick system in medieval England in around 1100. The tally sticks recorded a payment of taxes, but soon began to circulate in a secondary discount market, being accepted as payment ...
Tipping the Velvet is a 1998 debut novel by Welsh novelist Sarah Waters. A historical novel set in England during the 1890s, it tells a coming-of-age story about a young woman named Nan who falls in love with a male impersonator , follows her to London, and finds various ways to support herself as she journeys through the city.