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unusual facts about Cloth



A Terrible Night

The film was made with the Méliès-Reulos portable camera in the open air, in the garden of Méliès's home in Montreuil, using natural sunlight and a cloth backdrop.

Active camouflage

In 2003 researchers at the University of Tokyo under Susumu Tachi created a prototype active camouflage system in which a video camera images the background and displays it on a cloth using an external projector.

Alamance, North Carolina

Holt's mill produced the well-known "Alamance Plaids", the first factory-dyed cotton cloth produced south of the Potomac.

Alizarin

Cloth dyed with madder root pigment was found in the tomb of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun and in the ruins of Pompeii and ancient Corinth.

Appliqué

Appliquéd cloth is an important art form in Benin, West Africa, particularly in the area around Abomey, where it has been a tradition since the 18th century and the kingdom of Danhomè.

Belanting

In order to deal with the supernatural problems the villagers were reportedly encountering, a few of his bones and skull were later unearthed and wrapped in a white cloth and taken to Bayan and he given a formal funeral, which was believed to free the area of its ghosts.

Bommana Brothers Chandana Sisters

They are Mani Chandana (Farjana) and Siri Chandana (Rithima) and both of them are the daughters of Mohan Rao (Kota Srinivasa Rao), the owner of popular cloth business chan.

Buddhism in Khotan

Murals found there depicted two important Buddhist mythological figures, Hariti and Avalokitesvara, draped in cloth with Sassanian designs on.

Cloth Fair

Cloth Fair is a street in the City of London where, in medieval times, merchants gathered to buy and sell material during the Bartholomew Fair.

Cloth filter

The cloth filter has been studied and reported on by Rita Colwell and Anwar Huq from the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, together with other researchers from the USA and Bangladesh.

Cotton production in the United States

Imported from Europe, cotton has an ancient history of over 5000 years, and is also traced to Alexander carrying cotton cloth on his shoulders while returning from India.

De Locis Sanctis

Arculf also saw many relics such as the miraculous grave cloth of Jesus (compare the Shroud of Turin), which had brought generations of good fortune, and the very fig tree on which Judas Iscariot hanged himself.

Domeli, Kapurthala

The sanctum, a raised platform in the middle of the room, has the Thamm Sahib draped in cloth in the centre with the Guru Granth Sahib Ji seated on a palaki (palanquin).

Eleanor of Woodstock

As she sailed from Sandwich, her wedding trousseau included a wedding gown of Spanish cloth, caps, gloves, shoes, a bed, rare spices and loaves of sugar.

Equinunk Creek

Equinunk Creek (Lenape for "where cloth is distributed") joins the Delaware River at Equinunk.

Frescobaldi

From an early economic base in the Italian community of cloth merchants in Bruges, the Frescobaldi expanded their banking interests to their home city of Florence in the 13th century.

Furoshiki

On March 6, 2006, the Japanese Minister of the Environment, Yuriko Koike, created a furoshiki cloth to promote its use in the modern world.

Helmshore

Mill ponds, weirs, sluice gates and an aqueduct are also part of the museum as well as a 19th-century working waterwheel, fulling stocks and other machinery associated with the finishing of woollen cloth, an original Arkwright water frame, and a Hargreaves Spinning Jenny.

Idol: The Musical

When the cloth is stripped away the audience realizes this is a fan club for Clay Aiken!

Islam in Malaysia

At certain Malaysian institutions such as the International Islamic University, wearing of the tudung is mandatory; however for non-Muslim students this usually amounts to a loosely worn piece of cloth draped over the back of the head.

Jacobszoon

Jan Jacobszoon Hinlopen (1626–1666), rich Dutch cloth merchant, officer in the civic guard, real estate developer, alderman and art collector

Jean Malouel

Malouel is recorded as working in Paris painting armorial decorations on cloth (probably for banners) for Isabelle of Bavaria, Queen of France, in 1396–97, but by August 1397 he was in Dijon, the capital of the Duchy of Burgundy, where he succeeded Jean de Beaumetz (d. 1396) to the position of court painter to Philip, with the rank of valet de chambre.

John Maxwell Edmonds

His father was a schoolmaster and later the vicar of Great Gransden, while his mother was the daughter of a self-made Cornish cloth manufacturer.

Karnataka Khadi Gramodyoga Samyukta Sangha

The cloth needed for the flag is sourced from KKGSS's unit in Bagalkot and divided into three lots, each of the lots to be dyed with one of the three major colors in the Indian flag.

Lands of Threepwood

Cotton cloth or linen was originally bleached by repeatedly steeping it in an alkaline solution or lye derived from ash tree or fern ashes, called 'bucking'.

Lazurite

It has been used as a pigment in painting and cloth dyeing since at least the sixth or seventh century CE.

Linda Connor

Connor's noted images include a photograph of a ceremonial cloth carefully wrapped around a tree trunk in Bali, petroglyphs hidden in the cliff dwellings of Arizona, star trails in Mexico, and votive candles meticulously arranged for ceremonial rites at Chartres.

Manoppello Image

The cloth has been claimed to be made of a rare fiber called byssus, which is a natural fiber coming from a bivalve mollusc Pinna nobilis, woven into sea silk, and used by ancient people mainly around the Mediterranean coasts .

Marcel Delgado

This skeleton was made from Dural and it was then filled in with foam rubber or cotton cloth and covered with latex to serve as skin, giving his models a more natural and realistic look, while simultaneously making it easier to handle them.

Mérode Altarpiece

Peter or Petrus Engelbrecht, born around 1400, was probably a merchant of cloth and wool, and was very well off, with property in Antwerp, Mechelen and Luxembourg, and through his first wife in the duchy of Gulik and in Cologne in addition.

Pala d'Oro

The pala (from Latin palla, "cloth") was to be covered by Paolo Veneziano's wooden altarpiece and opened to the astonished public during liturgies only.

Partille Municipality

The Scotsmen William Gibson and Alexander Keiller opened a factory for production of sail- and tent cloth.

Pea coat

According to a 1975 edition of the Mariner's Mirror, the term pea coat originated from the Dutch or West Frisian word pijjekker or pijjakker, in which pij referred to the type of cloth used, a coarse kind of twilled blue cloth with a nap on one side.

Polyurethane laminate

This laminated fabric is useful as a wind and/or water barrier in the construction of fluid-splash protecting garments, shower curtains, outerwear clothing, however it is primarily used for making cloth nappies / diapers and cloth menstrual pads.

Proof of concept

Their short film Geri's Game used techniques for animation of cloth and of human facial expressions later used in Toy Story 2.

Robert Morrison MacIver

Robert Morrison MacIver was born in Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Scotland on April 17, 1882 to Donald MacIver, a general merchant and tweed manufacturer, and Christina MacIver (née Morrison).

Russet

Humble squires and priests, such as Franciscans wore russet as a sign of humility but preferred a good quality russet such as that made in Colchester, which was better than the cheapest cloth.

San Giovanni in Persiceto

In the Persiceto we can pinpoint samples of early rural industry: for centuries the inhabitants of the Persiceto cultivated hemp, but then not only the local production (together with cloth machining) flowed to the weekly market, but also the hemp coming from other places (such as for instance Cento and Crevalcore), so that its trade was included in the announcements.

Shaggy parasol

The spelling "rachodes" was used by Vittadini when he first published the species in 1835, but is erroneous as the Greek word rhakos 'piece of cloth' should be transcribed as rhacos.

St Pauls House, Leeds

Built in 1878 as a warehouse and cloth cutting works for Sir John Barran, 1st Baronet, this is a Grade II* listed building.

Sudra

Sudarium, is a Latin word, literally meaning 'sweat cloth', used for wiping the face clean and now associated with Christian liturgical usage and art.

The Travelling Band

A couple of hand-crafted, cloth-packaged EPs helped to create a local buzz in the run up to the album's release, while acclaim came from further afield when the band won the Glastonbury Festival 2008 New Talent award.

Tracing board

Though the various Grand Lodges were then generally hostile to the creation of any physical representations of the Ritual and symbols of the Craft, the time-consuming business of redrawing the symbols at every meeting was gradually replaced by keeping a removable "floor cloth" to display the symbols, and of which different portions might be exposed according to the agenda .

U.S. Army M-1943 Uniform

The U.S. Army developed the M-1943 Uniform Ensemble manufactured in Herringbone Twill (HBT) beginning in 1942 to replace a variety of other specialist uniforms and some inadequate garments, like the OD Cotton Field Jacket.

Uniforms of the Imperial Japanese Army

Hachimaki (鉢巻) is a stylized headband (bandana) in the Japanese culture, usually made of red or white cloth, worn as a symbol of perseverance or effort by the wearer.

Walter Buckmaster

It is of cloth of gold embroidered in rich silks with a figure of St Edward the Confessor holding a model of the Abbey which he built and a charter of foundation.

Wealden cloth industry

Once dry, the cloth was brushed with teasels to get rid of loose threads; and finally the shearman cut off loose and projecting pieces of wool.

White flag

Its use may have expanded across continents, e.g. Portuguese chronicler Gaspar Correia (writing in the 1550s), claims that in 1502, an Indian prince, the Zamorin of Calicut, dispatched negotiators bearing a "white cloth tied to a stick", "as a sign of peace", to his enemy Vasco da Gama.

Worshipful Company of Clothworkers

From the later Middle Ages, cloth production gradually moved away from London, a situation exacerbated by the Great Fire of London and the Industrial Revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries.


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