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2. Seersucker - Wikipedia

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   Seersucker. Blue and white is a common seersucker color combination. Seersucker, hickory stripe or railroad stripe is a thin, puckered, usually cotton fabric, commonly but not necessarily striped or chequered, used to make clothing for hot weather. The word originates from the Persian words شیر shîr and شکر shakar, literally meaning ...

3. Seersucker Thursday - Wikipedia

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   Seersucker Thursday is an annual tradition in the United States Congress in which senators wear clothing made of seersucker on National Seersucker Day, traditionally observed on a " 'nice and warm day' in the second or third week of June'". [1] This light, cotton-based material is associated with the warm and humid climate of the Southern ...

4. Buckram - Wikipedia

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   Buckram is a stiff cotton (occasionally linen or horse hair) cloth with a plain, usually loose, weave, produced in various weights similar to muslin and other plain weave fabrics. [1] For buckram, the fabric is soaked in a sizing agent such as wheat-starch paste, glue (such as PVA glue), or pyroxylin (gelatinized nitrocellulose, developed ...

5. Calendering (textiles) - Wikipedia

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   Calendering of textiles is a finishing process used to smooth, coat, or thin a material. With textiles, fabric is passed between calender rollers at high temperatures and pressures. Calendering is used on fabrics such as moire to produce its watered effect and also on cambric and some types of sateens. In preparation for calendering, the fabric ...

6. Egyptian cultural dress - Wikipedia

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   In Minya, Beni Suef, and Giza, the outer dress is made of malas. This fabric is similar to seersucker, but with wider stripes, and usually black in color. Initially it was made of silk, but later rayon became popular; this and the discovery of cheaper black dyes made the garment accessible to poorer people.

7. Houndstooth - Wikipedia

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   Houndstooth is a pattern of alternating light and dark checks used on fabric. It is also known as hounds tooth check, hound's tooth (and similar spellings), dogstooth, dogtooth or dog's tooth. The duotone pattern is characterized by a tessellation of light and dark solid checks alternating with light-and-dark diagonally-striped checks—similar ...