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  2. Units of textile measurement - Wikipedia

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    Textile fibers, threads, yarns and fabrics are measured in a multiplicity of units.. A fiber, a single filament of natural material, such as cotton, linen or wool, or artificial material such as nylon, polyester, metal or mineral fiber, or human-made cellulosic fibre like viscose, Modal, Lyocell or other rayon fiber is measured in terms of linear mass density, the weight of a given length of ...

  3. Polar fleece - Wikipedia

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    Polar fleece is a soft fabric made from polyester that is napped and insulating. PolarFleece is a trademark registered by Malden Mills (now Polartec, LLC) with the United States Patent and Trademark Office on October 6, 1981. [ 1 ]

  4. Alpaca fiber - Wikipedia

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    Alpaca fleece, Wool Expo, Armidale, NSW Spinning alpaca wool by Treadle wheel, Gotthard Pass, 2018. Yarn spun from alpaca wool. Alpaca scarf. Cambridge Food, Garden and Produce Festival, England. Alpaca fleece is the natural fiber harvested from an alpaca. There are two different types of alpaca fleece. The most common fleece type comes from a ...

  5. The Golden Fleece (painting) - Wikipedia

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    The Golden Fleece is the second sheep shearing themed painting in a series done by Tom Roberts. In 1890, four years prior to the painting of The Golden Fleece , Roberts expressed in a letter to The Argus , a Melbourne-based newspaper, his desire to create a shearing themed piece, writing: 'being in the bush and feeling the delight and ...

  6. Burning of Parliament - Wikipedia

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    The Palace of Westminster on fire, October 1834, with Old Palace Yard in foreground [1]. The Palace of Westminster, the medieval royal palace used as the home of the British parliament, was largely destroyed by fire on 16 October 1834.

  7. The Golden Fleecing - Wikipedia

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    Eventually, Scrooge and Donald reunite with the nephews and they find the Golden Fleece and defeat the Sleepless Dragon by covering its eyes with the Golden Fleece then sing a lullaby. Scrooge rejoices that he will now have the world's most fashionable coat, gold cloth with diamond buttons. One month later, they are back in Duckburg where the ...

  8. Woodworking - Wikipedia

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    Cherry likely will not be at the local home center, but should be at a lumberyard for a somewhat expensive price. [13] This hardwood is a very common material for furniture, and is resistant to normal wear-and-tear, but it is best for indoor pieces.

  9. Fleiss' kappa - Wikipedia

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    Fleiss' kappa is a generalisation of Scott's pi statistic, [2] a statistical measure of inter-rater reliability. [3] It is also related to Cohen's kappa statistic and Youden's J statistic which may be more appropriate in certain instances. [4]