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  2. How to Get Paint Out of Clothes and Salvage Your Garments - AOL

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    How to Get Oil Paint Out of Clothes. Oil-based paint is less common than water-based paint like latex but is still used for furniture or high-traffic areas as it dries very hard. The steps to ...

  3. How to Get Grease and Oil Out of Clothes - AOL

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    Plus, while it is tougher to remove dried oil stains from clothing, it’s not impossible. You’ll just need to use a little more elbow grease (pardon the pun) to get the job done. Read on to ...

  4. Textile recycling - Wikipedia

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    Textile recycling is the process of recovering fiber, yarn, or fabric and reprocessing the material into new, useful products. [1] Textile waste is split into pre-consumer and post-consumer waste and is sorted into five different categories derived from a pyramid model.

  5. Upcycling - Wikipedia

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    Venice Biennale installation by MaƂgorzata Mirga-Tas (2022) - artistic upcycling of old textile materials. While recycling usually means the materials are remade into their original form, e.g., recycling plastic bottles into plastic polymers, which then produce plastic bottles through the manufacturing process, upcycling adds more value to the materials, as the name suggested.

  6. Cotton recycling - Wikipedia

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    Post-consumer cotton is textile waste that is collected after consumers have discarded the finished products, such as used apparel and household items. [1] Post-consumer cotton which is made with many color shades and fabric blends is labor-intensive to recycle because the different materials have to be separated before recycling. [1]

  7. Unknown Vandal Spray Paints Tortoises, Prank Leaves ... - AOL

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    Two gopher tortoises were spray painted with bright colors in Naples, Florida, causing a local conservancy to rush to their aid

  8. Oilskin - Wikipedia

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    The modern oilskin garment was developed by a New Zealander, Edward Le Roy, in 1898. Le Roy used worn-out sailcloth painted with a mixture of linseed oil and wax to produce a waterproof garment suitable to be worn on deck in foul-weather conditions. Oilskins are part of the range of protective clothing also known as foul-weather gear.

  9. Conservation and restoration of paintings - Wikipedia

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    High temperature softens paint. low temperature causes brittle paint. Oil Paint [23] 40–45% or 45–45%: Expansion and contraction of painting, wood and fabric absorb moisture or shrink, paint cracks and flakes, or sags: max 200 lux: Fading or darkening of painting: 65 °F–70 °F or 70 °F–75 °F: Expansion and contraction of painting ...