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Corduroy is a textile with a distinctively raised "cord" or wale texture. Modern corduroy is most commonly composed of tufted cords, sometimes exhibiting a channel (bare to the base fabric) between them. Both velvet and corduroy derive from fustian fabric. Corduroy looks as if it is made from multiple cords laid parallel to each other. [1]
In Isaak Levitan's well-known "mood landscape", the Vladimir Highway, or Vladimirka, takes on a symbolic meaning. The Siberian Route (Russian: Сибирский тракт, Sibirsky trakt), also known as the "Moscow Highway" and "Great Highway", was a historic route that connected European Russia to Siberia and China.
A corduroy road or log road is a type of road or timber trackway made by placing logs, perpendicular to the direction of the road over a low or swampy area. The result is an improvement over impassable mud or dirt roads, yet rough in the best of conditions and a hazard to horses due to shifting loose logs.
Corduroy is a 1968 children's book written and illustrated by Don Freeman, and published by The Viking Press. Based on a 2007 online poll, the National Education Association listed the book as one of its "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children."
Bedford cord, named after the town of New Bedford, Massachusetts, a famous 19th century textile manufacturing city, is a durable fabric that resembles corduroy. The weave has faint lengthwise ridges, but without the filling yarns that make the distinct wales characteristic of corduroy. It can have the appearance of narrow-width stripes with ...
"Power in Limits: Narrow Frames Open Up African American Public History". In van Balgooy, Max A. (ed.). Interpreting African American History. Interpreting History. Vol. 3. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 135–46. ISBN 9780759122802. Archived from the original on August 12, 2021
The Corduroy Road Historic Site is located in a road reserve situated between a Travelling Stock Reserve and Pastoral Properties, developed sometime between 1800 and 1895. The corduroy road is adjacent to and runs parallel with the current East Coonamble Road approximately five kilometres (three miles) from the small village of Curban. [1]
In corduroy, there were seven ridges to the inch, so along a 31-inch (790 mm) bolt, there would be about 320 cuts to be done. [ 8 ] In the 1860s, the cloth would be stretched over a 22-yard-long (20 m) table, and the cutters would walk the length of the table as many times as was necessary.