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2. Wool - Wikipedia

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   Wool felted and treated with lanolin is water resistant, air permeable, and slightly antibacterial, so it resists the buildup of odor. Some modern cloth diapers use felted wool fabric for covers, and there are several modern commercial knitting patterns for wool diaper covers. Initial studies of woollen underwear have found it prevented heat ...

3. Boiled wool - Wikipedia

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   Boiled wool is a type of fabric primarily used in creating berets, scarves, vests, cardigans, coats, and jackets. To create this fabric, knit wool or wool-blend fabrics are agitated with hot water in a process called fulling. This process shrinks the fabric and results in a dense felted fabric that resists fraying and further shrinkage. [1]

4. Felt - Wikipedia

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   Felt is used extensively in pianos; for example, piano hammers are made of wool felt around a wooden core. The density and springiness of the felt is a major part of what creates a piano's tone. [41] [42] As the felt becomes grooved and "packed" with use and age, the tone suffers. [43]

5. Melton (cloth) - Wikipedia

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   Melton cloth is traditionally made of wool and is woven in a twill form. It is thick, due to having been well fulled, which gives it a felt-like smooth surface. It is napped and very closely sheared. Meltons are similar to Mackinaw cloth. It is a very solid cloth in which the twill weave pattern is completely concealed due to the finishing ...

6. Broadcloth - Wikipedia

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   The word "broadcloth" was originally used just as an antonym to "narrow cloth", but later came to mean a particular type of cloth. [3] The 1909 Webster's dictionary (as reprinted in 1913) defines broadcloth as "A fine smooth-faced woolen cloth for men's garments, usually of double width (i.e., a yard and a half [140 cm]);—so called in distinction from woolens three quarters of a yard wide.

7. Fratelli Piacenza - Wikipedia

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   Fratelli Piacenza in Pollone. Fratelli Piacenza S.p.A. is an Italian fabric mill and family business established in 1733. [1] [2] Fratelli Piacenza has been accepted as a member house in the Henokiens (French: Les Hénokiens), an association of companies that have been continuously operating and remain family-owned for 200 years or more.