How To Use Woolen In A Sentence

Those who had struck it rich wore black woollen trousers and Napoleon boots, and sported silk sashes and gaily coloured kerchiefs.
I'd wear this dress with some thick woollen tights and ankle boots. The Sun
The army's Quartermaster Corps, unaccustomed to providing for the needs of a wartime force, had disbursed flimsy, floorless tents; as a result, Grant and the rest of the four - thousand - man force slept in the cold mud, protected from the elements by thin woolen blankets. 'The Training Ground: Grant, Lee, Sherman, and Davis in the Mexican War, 1846-1848'
The heat contracted the woollen garment
On land, they plundered logwood, a tree used to produce a dye used in the woolen industry.

I was greeted by grey bleakness and a scratchy woolen blanket and a hard wooden floor.
In winter we wear woollen clothes to keep us warm.
Pilot Cloth is a coarse, heavy, stout twilled woolen that is heavily napped and navy blue.
mothproof woollen clothes during the summer
Various species of _Lecanora_, particularly _L. tartarea_, known as cudbear, are used in dyeing woollen yarn. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
Try changing feather pillows, woollen blankets and woollen clothing to cotton or synthetic materials.
The man, half stooping, caught the woolen bashlik that had fallen from his head. The Centaur
This colourful handmade woollen wear come in green, red, ivory and black.
All the women at present were busy knitting woollen garments; some were learners and did their work slowly and painstakingly. Modern Literatures of the Non-Western World: Where the Waters Are Born
Dull, padded beige jackets and shapeless viscose dresses will go, in favour of the sheepskin gilets and long woollen cardigans sported by the rest of the high street.
A focal point of her final collection is a woollen skirt, blouse and long coat - all in neutral colours - with a cream silk organza overcoat on top.
There were people in warm, woollen scarves and thick, tall boots, and there were others in large, heavy overcoats and fluffy ear muffs.
Why do you have aureate long hair woollen cloth?
Article 3 The categories of agriculture subject to the administration of import tariff quotas are: wheat, corn, rice, bean oil, colza oil, palm oil, sugar, cotton, wool woolen silver.
Our tents are filled with clothes, down jackets, sleeping bags, woollen gloves and socks, snow boots, and tonnes of packed cream - sun-block, moisturiser, lip balm and cleanser - as well as the routine climbing paraphernalia of ropes, crampons, harnesses, descendeurs and carabiners.
Paul disappeared upstairs, and came back down with a dry sweater and a thick woollen blanket.
Beaver cloth is a heavy woolen overcoating, napped and pressed down to resemble beaver fur.
I wear woollen suits, woollen jumpers at the weekend and in this weather in the office. Times, Sunday Times
Don't forget your gloves, scarf, woolen hat, ear muffs and boots.
in spite of the heat he insisted on his woolen costume
You don't even need heavy woolens, as in Gulmarg you'll be able to hire snowboots, mufflers, woollen socks, windproof jackets and caps.
Trial judge Mr Justice Moses, who had swapped his red robe and wig for a grey, woollen, calf-length coat and pinstripe suit, followed on.
Every thing in this peaceful family sitting-room wore a snug and comfortable look, from the neat bed standing in a recess in the wall, with homemade blue woolen spread and snowy linen, to the brightly-polished powter plates upon the dresser and the unsoiled sand on the white floor. My third book
It's cold enough for light woollens but not yet time to get into heavier clothing.
You don't even need heavy woolens, as in Gulmarg you'll be able to hire snowboots, mufflers, woollen socks, windproof jackets and caps.
Adventurers "to carry on trade in English woolen cloth, or sent John A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1.
New types of cloth, lighter woolens, for instance, and changes in style, or introduction of mechanized fulling might change the locus of textile industries for which women provided much of the by-labour.
This passion helped the export of prized Kashmir woollen caftans and shawls to various countries.
I loved the smell of cork grease and slide oil, of musty woolen uniforms, and the tangy dankness of brassy horn bells.
In old photos of my homeland in Bohemia I see our shepherd, with his broad-brimmed hat and his loden coat, leaning against a tree, knitting a woolen sock.
The Princess arrived at 2.15 pm, wearing a green checked woollen coat over a red roll-neck and silk scarf with black boots, gloves and handbag.
Peaked woollen caps - perky, but potentially as unflattering as beanies. Times, Sunday Times
Aymara men in the Altiplano region wear long cotton trousers and woolen caps with ear flaps.
I remember her being led away from us by a kindly elderly lady in a two-piece woollen suit to be interviewed on her own. Times, Sunday Times
Pendleton Woolen Mills, known for colorful blankets and Western apparel, says the rodeo is horning in on its Pendleton trademark by using it in a way that could confuse consumers. Rodeo hauled into court over cologne
These boots will give a good grip on wet decks and worn with woollen thermal or neoprene socks will keep your feet as warm as toast.
The skirt was made of a scratchy woollen mohair beneath a satin bodice.
Copperas was closely linked with the woollen industry because it was mainly used as a textile dye fixative, a dye darkening agent and a black dye.
He wore a woollen vest beneath his shirt.
Chinchilla cloth is a heavy, spongy woolen overcoat fabric with a long nap that has been rubbed into a curly, nubby finish.
They were wrapped in woollen helmets and long scarves. Bomber
The chapel was lofty, cramped and stonily cold, but its austerity had been tempered a little by draping the walls with thick woollen hangings, and curtaining the inner side of the door. A River So Long
A few years ago I recommended carefully conducted dyeing trials on woolen cloth mordanted with bichromate of potash as the best and simplest mode adapted to such cases, and my subsequent experience enables me to confirm that observation to the fullest extent. Scientific American Supplement, No. 711, August 17, 1889
On the third day, the weather had reverted to its seasonal norm—chilly, windy, below-zero temperatures—increasing the "riding vibe," with thicker leggings and jodhpurs, flat black-leather riding boots (see Hermès, Cole Haan and Gucci) or sneakers (Prada and Lanvin), heavy woolen pea coats, cashmere scarves (Lora Piana) and Chanel bags. Springtime in New York
A great many of the men are wholly without shoes and use every expedient, such as rawhide moccasins and sandals and even wrapping the feet in pieces of woolen and cotton cloth. Mormon Settlement in Arizona A Record of Peaceful Conquest of the Desert
The man continued to smile, hands thrust deep into the pockets of his baggy woolen trousers. FURTHER TALES OF THE CITY
By then, I had done weeks of research and had bought woollen cloth to make my workaday clothes. Times, Sunday Times
He wore a woollen vest beneath his shirt.
The deoxidized indigo is yellow and in this state penetrates the woollen fibre; the more perfectly the indigo in a vat is deoxidized, the brighter and faster will be the colour. Vegetable Dyes Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer
The cat shifted about on his lap, clawed at the woolen nubs of his trousers.
I was wearing a shirt of Jeremy's, which came down to my knees, and a thick pair of woolen socks.
You now return to the large hall where you first undressed, wrap in woollen shawls, and recline on a divan. The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton
I bought two woolen suits of terrific style and workmanship for $75 each in Rome last winter; regular price was twice that.
Tweed is rough surfaced woollen cloth.
The comer was a young girl clothed in a white woollen garment, which was bound about her waist with a green cord; she was bareheaded; on her feet were thick sandals, bound also with thongs of green. The Forest Lovers
He was perspiring in his thick woollen suit.
He was wearing a white shirt, brown woollen trousers, a navy woollen jacket belted with a black belt and the cloak the soldier had mentioned.
On land, they plundered logwood, a tree used to produce a dye used in the woolen industry.
On her left shoulder was a swatch of bright woolen fabric woven in the colors of white, red, blue and green.
The principal manufactures are winceys, ginghams, woollen shirtings, flannels, linen thread, linen yarn, ropes, and fishing nets; and there are engineering and ironfounding works.
Woolen sweaters, cardigans, mittens, and socks were knitted with elaborate patterns.
For washing woollens and other clothes, mix four cups of pure soap flakes with two cups of methylated spirits and one tablespoon of eucalyptus oil.
Its alcoholic solution dyes silk green, and also woollen and cotton when mordanted with albumen. Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
Colum whirled round, his hand going to his knife, the other wrapping his thick woollen cloak shield, or buckler, round his arm. A SHRINE OF MURDERS
(mature female) to inhuman (hotwaterjar) calefaction, the stimulation of matutinal contact, the economy of mangling done on the premises in the case of trousers accurately folded and placed lengthwise between the spring mattress (striped) and the woollen mattress (biscuit section). Ulysses
In medieval color symbolism, red often connoted sin, but it also indicated wealth, especially in trecento Italy, where woolen cloth dyed in kermes was the most expensive.
Woolen sweaters, cardigans, mittens, and socks were knitted with elaborate patterns.
She had a warm woollen hat on that left only her eyes and nose showing.
Yet notwithstanding this ominous comparison she presently made her appearance with her sleeves turned down, her black woollen dress "tidied," and a smile of fatigued but not unkindly welcome and protection on her face. Cressy
She bought a pair of woollen hose yesterday.
All about are bondsmen's scalps - bald pates, shaved and shining as this morning's spring-ish dew - while we bonded women wear our best and only sheath of wadmal cloth, gray and drab and of a sweaty woolen, with a flaxen kerchief tied around our brows and braids. Excerpt: The Thrall's Tale by Judith Lindbergh
The first wave of Asian immigrants worked for low wages in woollen mills.
And on his head a woollen ski hat with a bobble on top.
The Talbe is distinguished by the length of his beard, a piece of woollen cloth, half white and half crimson, which he leaves loose and flowing about his body, and under which appears a figure, exhausted by fasting, (the consequence of excessive laziness), and a kind of chaplet of an enormous size. Perils and Captivity Comprising The sufferings of the Picard family after the shipwreck of the Medusa, in the year 1816; Narrative of the captivity of M. de Brisson, in the year 1785; Voyage of Madame Godin along the river of the Amazons, in the year 1770
Ni’amah replied, “An old woman of such and such a mien, clad in woollen raiment and carrying a rosary of beads numbered by thousands.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
In winter we wear woollen clothes to keep us warm.
Most players were employed in heavy industry in the adjoining suburbs, in engineering firms, woollen mills and the railway workshop.
As for the issue of moneye, if chaunce shal haue yt that we meet at a conferaunce (thou kan recognise me by myn brode sholdres, litel woolen hatte, and joviale expressioun), ich wille buye thee a drynke or thre. Chaucer, Making a Quick Buck
The girls were all in simple woollen dresses and white linen smocks, their hair tied mostly in ponytails.
Dowager lady Chia observed that Pao-yü was clad in a deep-red felt fringed overcoat, with woollen lichee-coloured archery-sleeves and with an edging of dark green glossy satin, embroidered with gold rings. Hung Lou Meng
My uniform was a navy gym frock and blazer, a white blouse, and black lisle or woollen stockings.
She likes to wear woolen socks in winter.
They were wrapped in woollen helmets and long scarves. Bomber
He is dressed impeccably, of course, in grey woollen trousers and a fitted white shirt. Times, Sunday Times
When, after an aggravatingly long passage of time, a suitable pile of meat had been assembled, Wenda had to dig for and find two large woolen sacks and a length of thin rope. Raven Speak
She felt warm in her underdress of woollen kirtle and green cord-bound gown. A SHRINE OF MURDERS
washable woolens
[217] Soft wool within, i e. a kind of woollen stuffing, pressed in between the straps, to protect the head, and make the helmet fit close. The Iliad of Homer
The cold, damp winters require heavy coats, mackintoshes (rain-coats), and warm woolen clothes.
A blouse made from a single rectangular piece of woolen cloth is fastened at one shoulder, but it is more common for women to wear cotton blouses.
Oil-clothes, heavy under-clothing, hip boots of red rubber, white, doughnut-shaped woolen "nippers" for pulling trawls, and various other articles for convenience and comfort were added to their outfits. Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good
The best of them all was surely broadcloth, which in the eighteenth century was a superfine grade of woolen cloth that was fulled, or shrunk, napped, and shorn so that it was the consistency of felt but with a smooth surface.
The men wore knee length wrap-around skirts or kilt-like woollens as well as tunics, cloaks and even one-piece garments.
Encourage dressing gowns, thermal underwear and woollen jumpers. Times, Sunday Times
Martin washed woollens that day, by hand, in a large barrel, with strong soft-soap, by means of a hub from a wagon wheel, mounted on Chapter 16
She bought a pair of woollen hose yesterday.
He was dressed in clean blue woollen trousers and a spotless white linen shirt.
[35.6] Sagathy is "a light woolen stuff, a kind or serge or ratteen, sometimes mixed with a little silk. Inventory of Robert Carter's Estate, November [1733]
He also had on a green jumper, a pair of dark blue woollen gloves, jeans and trainers.
They played in heavy leather boots, shorts, jerseys and woollen hats. The Sun
Her woollen scarf had been used to tie her body to the tombstone. Times, Sunday Times
By 1840, a locally financed firm of British machinists adopted water-powered machines, to make woolen and merino shirts and drawers like those of their native Leicester.
The upper part of her body was clad in a white woollen sweater decorated with blue diamond symbols. COVER STORY
She prefers linen sheets and woollen blankets. AT HOME WITH THE QUEEN: The Inside Story of the Royal Household
The upper part of her body was clad in a white woollen sweater decorated with blue diamond symbols. COVER STORY
For when that part of the art of composition which is employed in the working of wool forms a web by the regular intertexture of warp and woof, the entire woven substance is called by us a woollen garment, and the art which presides over this is the art of weaving. The Statesman
A waist-length, brightly colored, handwoven woolen poncho is worn over the bolero, or sometimes thrown over the shoulder.
Wool fibers are processed into two fabric types: woolen fabrics and worsted fabrics.
Her tiny feet were wrapped in a woollen bundle, and rested on hot bricks, and her aching head was tied up in red flannel bandages that smelled of brandy; she had a mustard plaster on her chest, a cayenne pepper 'gargle' for her throat, and a cup of hot ginger tea stood at her elbow; her pretty nose was swollen out of shape, her bright eyes were red and inflamed, and little blisters had broken out all over those kissable lips; a very damp white handkerchief lay in her lap, and two great tears, that it had not yet wiped away, ran down her flushed cheeks. The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
In fact, north Italy generated numerous major rural industrial sectors in the period, including iron, paper manufacture, linens and woollens.
Their normal every - day clothes began to shift into woollen trousers and linen blouses, clothes of varying colours.
Popes also began wearing a white woolen cloak, call a pallium, to symbolize their ecclesiastical rank. CNN Transcript Apr 24, 2005
Her woollen coats and cashmere dresses were technically brilliant.
She had been wrapped in a woollen blanket and the only clothes she wore were a felt hat and fur shoes.
A Roman bride put away childish things—her toys and the miniature toga she had worn throughout infancy—and dressed in a straight white woolen dress tunica recta that she had woven herself on a special loom. Caesars’ Wives
Each person had one platter of this provision; after which were distributed to them shoes, stockings, linen and woollen cloth, and leather bags, with one penny, two-penny, threepenny, and fourpenny pieces of silver and shillings; to each about four pounds in value. 04/01/2004 - 05/01/2004
She also decided to take woolen pants and jerkins as well as a thick lined jacket that was waterproofed.
In an attempt to prevent his mouth from falling open, a woollen strap had been passed beneath his chin.
His father was a wholesale merchant who imported woollen fabrics from England. Times, Sunday Times
The chlamys was a heavy woolen shawl, red or purple. Buried Cities, Complete Pompeii, Olympia, Mycenae
He wore a woolen vest beneath his shirt.
Before moving to America he had worked in Chorley as an apprentice calico designer and learned the art of engraving at his father's business, who was a woollen manufacturer.
You may have spotted the little stalls on the street, which sell ‘strange’ red and white woollen bracelets, puppets and amulets.
It was used as a weigh loft, in which the woollen yarn produced by the country women's distaff and spinning-wheel was weighed out to the cap, jacket, or cloth manufacturers.
Heavier fabrics like tweed and woolens can use godets, of course, but the skirt will not flow as much.
Each of us put on a rough, heavy suit of clothing, woolen army shirt and "stogy" boots included; and into the valise we crowded a few white shirts, some under-clothing and such things. Roughing It
In 1983 stay-up's appeared in beautiful designs: matt, opaque, shimmering, transparent, semi-opaque, fine-meshed, woolen and silken.
As for the issue of moneye, if chaunce shal haue yt that we meet at a conferaunce (thou kan recognise me by myn brode sholdres, litel woolen hatte, and joviale expressioun), ich wille buye thee a drynke or thre. Chaucer, Making a Quick Buck
The girl was on one side of the room, wrapped in thick woolen blankets.
To preserve the natural softness of woollen blankets, add one tablespoon of glycerine (for each blanket) to warm soapy water.
Between 1475 and 1550 existing markets for English broadcloths and other woollens grew rapidly, because the importing regions became more prosperous and had greater purchasing power.
= Moire is a waved or watered effect produced upon the surface of various kinds of textile fabrics, especially on grosgrain silk and woolen moreen. Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades
A blanket keeps us warm because it is woollen and thick.
Soleure would fain have joined with him in conversation respecting trade and merchandize, yet the Englishman, who dealt in articles of small bulk and considerable value, and traversed sea and land to carry on his traffic, could find few mutual topics to discuss with the Swiss trader, whose commerce only extended into the neighboring districts of Burgundy and Germany, and whose goods consisted of coarse woollen cloths, fustian, hides, peltry and such ordinary articles. Anne of Geierstein
He tugged a woolen jersey from his pack and pulled it on.
The bowmen were dressed in green kirtles, rather shorter than those of the squires, and wore dark woolen hose; they carried their bows and arrows slung across their shoulders.
Aymara men in the altiplano wear long cotton trousers and woolen caps with ear flaps.
A scrimpy woollen skirt is tied around the waist with a girdle, and over the shoulders is worn Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan
She quickly stripped out of her gown, grabbing a heavy black woolen cloak and pulling it around her shoulders.
Known as Sufi (literal meaning - wool, as in ascetics who wore woolen garments), they opted for solitude and abnegation, renouncing physical comforts.
-- If a piece of woolen is not constructed right from the start or if the work is not properly finished, that is, enough fulled in width or length, it is liable to be raggy or slazy. Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades
When woollen cloth was woven on a handloom the nap had to be combed in order to raise it.
-- Ford's was the principal woollen-draper, linen-draper, and haberdasher's shop united; the shop first in size and fashion in the place. Emma
Her necklaces, also gold and ivory, seemed plain compared to Sevanna's opulence, her dark woolen skirts and white algode blouse drab, yet of the two women, Faile feared Therava far more than she did Sevanna. Knife of Dreams
With winter at its peak, the sari can be teamed even with woollen blouses and pullovers.
My thick woollen winter coat is a sponge. Times, Sunday Times
The upper part of her body was clad in a white woollen sweater decorated with blue diamond symbols. COVER STORY
Mothers would knit him chunky woollen jumpers that engulfed his slight frame. Times, Sunday Times
He wore a long woollen garment stained by the sea, knotted at the waist with a piece of rope. A Roomful of Birds - Scottish short stories 1990
Generally, all woollen textiles are of felt or employ plain weave.
Now, you just cannot stand the sight of those woollen pullovers, the windcheaters.
Woollen kilts, Hessian full-length skirts, single shoulder organza tops and transparent trousers appear in earthy tones of brown and green.
Select a cool programme for woollen clothes.
He wore a woolen vest beneath his shirt.
Fire has caused £30,000 damage to a woollen waste mill, and it could have been worse but for the alertness of a teenage girl.
Some wore woollen hats; others had their heads covered in keffiyeh, or headscarves. Times, Sunday Times
He also had on a green jumper, a pair of dark blue woollen gloves, jeans and trainers.
In winter we wear woollen clothes to keep us warm.
From now on, your favorite woolen garments, fleeced cotton garments, labeled with "hand-wash only" are now washable by machine.
Paint and tattoos adorned bodies sometimes naked, oftener wrapped in a dyed woolen kilt-a sort of primitive himation-or attired in breeches and perhaps a tunic of gaudy hues. The Boat of a Million Years
Claris looks out from under her limp-brimmed woollen hat and asks me for an orange with a charming broken-toothed smile.
To wear our traditional woollen clothes, or even to speak Balti is considered a sign of backwardness.
She is wearing the same woollen coat she wore for her 1965 mugshot. Times, Sunday Times
Nobody will give a damn whether you're wearing your best designer wear or not, so don't be afraid to wear that hideous green woollen sweater your aunt knitted you one Christmas.
Among these were packets of cigarettes, thick woollen socks and gloves, and chocolate.
He also wore leather shoes, a leather belt and a dark green woollen jacket over his shirt.
Will this soap shrink woolen clothes?
She slipped on waterproof shoes and a woolen hat.
Other popular fabrics for the season include corduroy, but in a finer gauge than was worn during the autumn and winter, and very fine woollens and knitwear.
The thrum is the fringed end of a weaver's web; a thrum hat was made of very coarse tufted woollen cloth. It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot
These woollen suits are not designed for wear in hot climates.
For £150 a year, anyone can adopt a sheep and in return be sent four kilos of pecorino, wild honey, jams and some woollen jumpers.
Rag & Bone's offering for women echoed a lot of what we saw earlier yesterday at the men's show: wintry woolen stripes, rich herringbones and a collection-defining tapestry floral applied to outerwear a Taj coat and a Raj jacket; India meets England was the theme. NYT > Home Page
Edmund Carey, the second, set up the loom on which he wove the woollen cloth known as "tammy," in a two-storied cottage. Life of William Carey
Women wear long cotton or woolen scarves that cover their heads, ears, backs, and shoulders.
The heat presses on me like a woolen blanket in the night.
the Cotswolds were once at the forefront of woollen manufacturing in England
His face was an exceedingly round but sober one; he was dressed in a faded blue woollen frock or shirt, and patched trowsers; and had thus far been dividing his attention between a marlingspike he held in one hand, and a pill-box held in the other, occasionally casting a critical glance at the ivory limbs of the two crippled captains. Moby Dick: or, the White Whale
Woollen manufacturers needed cheap, soft water for washing and dyeing; merchants wanted modern docks.
As a child Julia would have had a more simple hairstyle than that worn by this adult alter ego, tied back with woolen bands vittae until it was long enough to be pinned up in the stiff nodus favored by her stepmother and aunt, which would have happened just as she was nearing the age of marriage. Caesars’ Wives
She disappeared for a moment, reappearing with scratchy woollen blankets.
An old woman covered her bare shoulders with a woollen shawl as Estelle struggled with the butter churn by the doorway.
Weary travelers of the space-time continuum can rest on occasional furniture like a woolen ottoman called a pouf stool $590. NYT > Home Page
He sat on the top step of the porch and quickly pulled on his thick, woolen socks.
An eagle-eyed reader claims he saw him walking near his west London home last Saturday morning, wearing a woollen greatcoat and leather moccasins, but no trousers.
Clad as usual modestly - a violet woolen top and black sports pants, no bijouterie or charms - she seems a trifle mundane; it's her face that shows it all: deep down she's walking on air.
Popes also began wearing a white woolen cloak called a pallium, to symbolize their ecclesiastical rank. CNN Transcript Apr 24, 2005
Her cape was a sodden woolen mass, and her walking boots squished unpleasantly when she walked.
The first impression you have of him is of a wise and playful octogenarian, warmly dressed in denims and thick woollen sweater.
I will tell you now that I shot only once in my military career, and that in so doing I murdered the woolen hat of my sergeant which he had lost leaping into a nearby defilade. The light that draws the flower
I'm not arguing that one should swelter in woolen knee socks during July and August. Generation Sock
Actually, the faces were barely visible - just the eyes through the slits in the woollen balaclavas they wore.
The wool or hair of sheep, camels, goats and rabbits is used to produce woollen yarns. Technology Basic Facts
The mail was of finest rings of steel sewn upon soft doeskin, fitted so closely that there was no room for gambison or jerkin; and though it might have stopped a broad arrow or turned the edge of a blade, a sharp dagger could have made a wound beneath it, and against a blow it afforded less protection than a woollen cloak. Via Crucis
The men have but a single barracan to cover them, one or two may have a shirt; the children are nearly naked; and the women wear a woollen frock, charms round their necks, armlets, and anclets, sometimes throwing a slight barracan or sefsar round their heads and shoulders. Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846
In our own Kangra mission we started to produce teazel, which is that spiky plant used in woolen mills for "teazing" woolen cloth. India Today
Colum whirled round, his hand going to his knife, the other wrapping his thick woollen cloak shield, or buckler, round his arm. A SHRINE OF MURDERS
Hans vniustly tooke vpon the sea, and caried away with them a packe of woollen cloth of the foresaid Simon, worth 42. pounds, out of a certain crayer of one Thomas Fowler of Lenne being laden and bound for Dantzik in Prussia. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
If we look at home only, where, we ask, would the woollen manufacture be now, but for the early laws restrictive of the importation of foreign woollens, nay more, restrictive of the export of British fleeces with which the manufactories of Belgium were alimented? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843
They are made of mohair and wearing costumes similar to those mill workers would have worn in the days when Trowbridge was a woollen industry town.
He was wearing a woollen cap and a fleece jacket with white squares on either side of the zip.
I will describe the process that I used for fulling my woollen dyed material.
The knitting correspondent was taking a well-earned break from the strenuous world of woollens, courtesy of her travel editor.
Among the manufactures woollens, especially winceys, linen and cotton goods hold an important place.
In the wintertime the dresses were made of checked woolen material called linsey cloth. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1
A range of woollen goods is available including ties, scarves, headsquares and traditional stoles.
There are plenty of woollen blankets and fluffy white towels.
Will this soap shrink woollen clothes?
Woollen cloth and timber were sent to Egypt in exchange for linen or papyrus.
I have declined more cotton goods from Ireland, and asked for woollen, which is one burden gone. A Brief Memoir with Portions of the Diary, Letters, and Other Remains, of Eliza Southall, Late of Birmingham, England
In winter we wear woollen clothes to keep us warm.
His face was masked by a grey scarf and dark woollen hat and he was wearing dark trousers, a dark knee-length coat and black trainers with white stripes.
A manufactory has been established for coarse woollen blanketing or rugs, and coarse linen called drugget; a linen of a very good quality has also been produced, which has been disposed of to settlers, etc. and issued from the stores to those who labour for the crown. The Present Picture of New South Wales (1811)
We also had to have an outlet to control the constant supply of comforts, such as woollen clothing, candies, cigarettes, and reading matter, so that they could be distributed to meet the needs of all. The Merchant Navy: The Fourth Arm of the Fighting Services
Every woollen filament of our garments, every hair of our heads and faces, was jewelled with a crystal globule. Chapter 25
Her woollen coats and cashmere dresses were technically brilliant.
Will this soap shrink woolen clothes?
Uniform cloth -- Cloth suitable for uniforms, usually a stout, fulled, woolen cloth, similar to kersey. Textiles and Clothing
a woolen sweater
Linsey-woolsey is a plain woven fabric with linen or cotton warp and woolen weft used in early America for warmth. Winters Of Spring « Fairegarden
A robe of serge with large sleeves, a large woollen veil, the guimpe which mounts to the chin cut square on the breast, the band which descends over their brow to their eyes, — this is their dress. Les Miserables
Custom Woolen Mills continues to process and spin wool much the same way it was done in the late 1800s.
Now, you just cannot stand the sight of those woollen pullovers, the windcheaters.
They spin and colour the wool themselves, using natural dyes, and create hand-made woollen garments including some very natty jumpers based on Rothko paintings.
He once turned up at Buckingham Palace in a fawn raincoat, woollen gloves and an old silk hat.
All the women at present were busy knitting woollen garments; some were learners and did their work slowly and painstakingly. Modern Literatures of the Non-Western World: Where the Waters Are Born
She threw a heavy woollen cloak over her shoulders.
Examples of tablet-woven braids: including a tie-dyed woollen braid, left, two braids in No 8 mercerised cotton, and a double faced technique in very fine cotton.
Two loads of woollen cloth were dispatched to the factory on December 12th.
A blanket keeps us warm because it is woollen and thick.
It was arrayed in a kind of woollen night-dress, and a white handkerchief or cloth was bound tightly about the head; I had no difficulty, spite of the strangeness of the attire, in recognising the blind woman whom I so much dreaded. The Purcell Papers
A knitted or crotcheted hat, with woollen rosettes over the ears, is, in the winter time, an excellent hat for a child subject to ear-ache. Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children
She felt warm in her underdress of woollen kirtle and green cord-bound gown. A SHRINE OF MURDERS
Then I pulled myself together and smartly switched allegiance, ditching the snug velvet tux for the interminable woollen scarf. Times, Sunday Times
What I found in Yule, Hobson-Jobson, p 861 excuse loss of diacriticals: "Sackcloth", often used in the masochistic sense of "hair shirt", apparently traces back to the Persian "Sakkalat, saklatun", which meant a kind of woollen broadcloth. Languagehat.com: MORE PYNCHONIAN VOCAB.
Fawn lisle or black woollen stockings and lace up shoes were required, but during the war with the shortage of clothing girls were allowed to wear three quarter grey woollen socks.
The woollen cloth prickles .
He wore a black jumper, black woollen hat and was unshaven.
` shirt 'from LL camisa, camisia ` shirt, thin dress,' probably of Germanic origin, akin to OE ham ` undergarment, 'hama ` cover, skin,' hemetha ` shirt, 'and to Skt śāmulya ` woolen shirt.' VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XX No 2
Corduroy's origins date back to the late 1700s England, not France as is widely believed, says James Pruden, a spokesman for Cotton Inc., a research and promotion nonprofit headquartered in Cary, N.C. The term corduroy is most likely a combination of the words "cord" and the now obsolete "duroy" or "deroy," meaning a woolen garment, he says. Reading Between the Lines, This Is a Big Date for Corduroy Fans
And she did back her raiment from her thin neck, and it was white as snow under the woolen, and she did on the necklace, and Osberne thought indeed that it sat well there, and that her head and neck looked grand and graithly. The Sundering Flood
A sleeveless, quilted jerkin might be all you need for extra warmth - or a large, woollen wrap instead of a coat.
Feel glad I took the advice of the Governor of Ghadames, and purchased a quantity of warm woollen clothing, heik, bornouse, and jibbah. Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846
The unseasonably warm weather has also kept women from spending in stores packed with woollen jumpers and winter coats. Times, Sunday Times
This machine using Arc slide. It is available to cutting materials such as cotton, woolens , silk, chemical fiber, leathers, etc.
Flannels and baizes are the principal woollen articles made in and near Halifax, together with cloth for the use of the army. Rides on Railways
The monkey was enveloped by the musty darkness of a coarse woollen bag.
Prices were also affixed to woollen cloth, [****] to caps and hats: [v] and the wages of laborers were regulated by law. [v*] It is evident, that these matters ought always to be left free, and be intrusted to the common course of business and commerce. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. From Henry VII. to Mary
As temperatures drop, people are opening drawers and cupboards to find that their best woollen jumpers are full of holes. The Sun
I was wearing a woollen cardigan and she pulled it off. Times, Sunday Times
He was wearing a black, woollen knee length overcoat, dark jeans and an orange or peachy coloured long sleeve shirt.
On approaching the latitudes of the Falkland Islands, the crew, complaining of cold, received what was called a Magellanic jacket, and a pair of trousers made of a thick woollen stuff called Fearnought. Captain Cook His Life, Voyages, and Discoveries
This bundle contained a little woollen gown, an apron, a fustian bodice, a kerchief, a petticoat, woollen stockings, shoes--a complete outfit for a girl of seven years. All was black.
Removing his gloves, Charles stuffs them in the pocket of his gray woolen coat before walking away from the table.
Traditional male Catalan garb includes the distinctive barretina, a sock-shaped, red woolen hat that can be seen at festivals.
His woollen hat conceals yet more cuts and bruises. Times, Sunday Times
Trowbridge was developed as a major woollen town, with the wealth of clothiers (going back to the 16th century) ensuring a rich-built legacy within the town.
It is made from green woolen cloth with an appliquéd design of a bird, perhaps an eagle, hawk, or thunderbird, in red flannel.
Curtains were made of cretonnes, silk and woolen, all matching the beautiful wallpaper.
The coat cupboard has had an interim clearout: arctic boots, salopettes, woollen hats and a diverse selection of single children's gloves have gone to the attic. Spring's here: skylarks overhead, moles in the garden, moths in the bathroom
The chief articles of furniture are, a handmill, which is used in summer, when there is no water in the Wadys to drive the mills; some copper kettles; and a few mats; in the richer houses some woollen Lebaet are met with, which are coarse woollen stuffs used for carpets, and in winter for horse-cloths: real carpets or mattrasses are seldom seen, unless it be upon the arrival of strangers of consequence. Travels in Syria and the Holy Land
The women affect parti-coloured petticoats of home-made baize or woollen stuff, dyed blue, scarlet, brown, or orange; a scalloped cape of the same material bound with some contrasting hue; and a white or coloured head-kerchief, sometimes topped by the _carapuça_, but rarely by the vulgar 'billycock' of the Canaries. To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I
Two loads of woollen cloth were dispatched to the factory on December 12th.
It was there that Paul Moriconi kept a brown leather suitcase containing a gray gabardine military tunic and matching riding pants, a khaki Italian military shirt and a woolen red dress that were claimed to have been a change of clothes in the possession of Mussolini and Petacci when they were captured. Mussolini's clothes possibly found in upstate N.Y.
Manufactures embrace woollen and worsted goods, silks, haircloths, crapes, stockings, gloves, shoes, paper, leather, iron implements, and malt.
These organic sources were supplemented by wind and water, which powered mills to grind corn or crush seeds, to power fulling mills in the woollen industry and bellows in iron furnaces.
She threw a heavy woollen cloak over her shoulders.
The unseasonably warm weather has also kept women from spending in stores packed with woollen jumpers and winter coats. Times, Sunday Times
Back of these in turn are folding blinds; then long, close curtains of muslin; then, finally, thick, manifolding, shrouding draperies of some airproof woolen stuff. Europe Revised
They are sewn with woollen stands or jute, and are available in plain and arrangements.
His face was masked by a grey scarf and dark woollen hat and he was wearing dark trousers, a dark knee-length coat and black trainers with white stripes.
Ashburton is one of the old stannary towns, and besides mining, it was known for its trade in woollen goods, especially serges. Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts
Dull, padded beige jackets and shapeless viscose dresses will go, in favour of the sheepskin gilets and long woollen cardigans sported by the rest of the high street.
He then put on an oil-skin cap, not unlike what is called by sailors a 'sou'-wester,' and stood watching the proceedings of his comrade, which were by no means as expeditious as his own; for that gentleman proceeded very leisurely to encase his feet in a pair of thick woollen stockings, and a pair of shoes more capable of resisting the wet than those which he then wore. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1
[_He takes off his cap and puts on a woolen cap_.] The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig
In winter he wore a heavy robe made from a buffalo that had been killed in the late fall, when the creature had grown a dark brown winter fur that was up to twenty inches thick.9 Plainsmen and soldiers claimed that one such robe offered more warmth than four heavy, army-issue woolen blankets. EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON
Tall, angular and awkward, he had on a short-waisted, thin swallow-tail coat, a short vest of the same material, thin pantaloons, scarcely coming to his ankles, a straw hat and a pair of brogans with woolen socks. Hughstimson.org » Blog Archive » Polygon, the County Clerk
Hey, has anyone seen that heavy woollen sock of mine?
He slept on bracken, the only concession to comfort a down quilt and a patch of woollen red plaid, often seen wrapped around him as he went about his business.
But new inventions in the 18th century speeded up textile production and led to the growth of factories, and many of the old corn mills were converted to woollen production.
Woollen kilts, Hessian full-length skirts, single shoulder organza tops and transparent trousers appear in earthy tones of brown and green.
The Rolls Royce of them all was surely broadcloth, which in the eighteenth century was a superfine grade of woolen cloth that was fulled, or shrunk, napped, and shorn so that it was the consistency of felt but with a smooth surface.
Products from logwood formed an important source of dyestuffs for silk, and more important, woollen cloth.
She stared down at the thick woolen cloth covering her but was still unable to discern the origin of the plaid.
While woollen carpets are priced between Rs.3,600 and 19,000, low cost varieties made out of suiting waste are priced at Rs.520.
He sauntered along, still wearing his heavy coat and woolen hat which was never, ever removed.
Plenty of people were missing eyes, and he was clad in an uncomfortable woolen shirt and burlap pants that were dyed a moss green.
Presently he set apart five damsels, amongst whom was the King s daughter, and sent them to thy father, King Omar bin al-Nu'uman, together with other gifts, such as broadcloth [FN#208] and woollen stuffs and Grecian silks. Arabian nights. English
The light clothes which will do for summer need to be changed for serious woollens, hoods and gloves for the freezing winds of winter.
As temperatures drop, people are opening drawers and cupboards to find that their best woollen jumpers are full of holes. The Sun
At first it had seemed such a good idea, to sit at the spinning wheel and spin the soft cream wool of her Jacob's sheep into fine woollen thread.
The rest of the party consists of two Arabs of the pure desert stock; thin, wiry men, deeply bronzed, and with hollow cheeks, and eyes of almost evil brightness; on their heads red tarbooshes; over their abas, and wrapping the left shoulder and the body so as to leave the right arm free, brown woollen haicks, or blankets. Ben-Hur, a tale of the Christ
Winton had been wearing a complete set of thick winter woolens, oilskins, and sea boots, and despite being a strong swimmer had not stood a chance in the heavy sea.
His face was an exceedingly round but sober one; he was dressed in a faded blue woolen frock or shirt, and patched trowsers; and had thus far been dividing his attention between a marlingspike he held in one hand, and a pill-box held in the other, occasionally casting a critical glance at the ivory limbs of the two crippled captains. Moby Dick; or the Whale
Daphne White pulls at a thread unraveling from the black woolen glove in her hand.
A man was lying in the box on top of a pile of woollen goods.
She was wearing the dark green woollen dress that showed off her still remarkable contours.
These organic sources were supplemented by wind and water, which powered mills to grind corn or crush seeds, to power fulling mills in the woollen industry and bellows in iron furnaces.
Melton is a thick, very tightly woven woollen cloth.
He was dressed in a bright Italian dressing-gown, or woollen paletot — Italian, as having been bought in Italy, though, doubtless, it had come from France — and on his feet he had green worked slippers, and on his head a brocaded cap. He Knew He Was Right
He was big and ugly, with a nose that had been spread half across his face, probably by a club, there wasn't a hair on his phiz or gleaming skull, the huge arms protruding from his vest were covered with tattoos, but what took the eye was that he was clieking away with knitting needles at a piece of woollen work - not a common sight in a waterfront dosshouse. THE NUMBERS
Their woollen clothes were greenish with age. Somewhere East of Life
The Border region's involvement led to the creation of a new fashion of fancy woolens and tweeds, which were preferred by consumers over broadcloth.
As might have been expected her garb was neither rich nor smart, but it was pretty and well made and evidently fitted for her life: a loose "middy," blue skirt, woolen stockings and rather solid little boots. The Sky Line of Spruce
There he changed from nighttime's woolen garb to sturdy leather daywear.
-- Ford's was the principal woollen-draper, linen-draper, and haberdasher's shop united; the shop first in size and fashion in the place. Emma
They were also clean-shaven, long-haired and wore round woollen hats.
The Princess arrived at 2.15 pm, wearing a green checked woollen coat over a red roll-neck and silk scarf with black boots, gloves and handbag.
And then there was the suit with woollen gloves debacle in Gravesend in March. Times, Sunday Times
Unshaven, scruffy, with greasy brown hair, he slouches in a woollen ski hat, totally self-absorbed.
They are not merely woollen figurines, illustrative of a deathbed scene in some generic way. 1066: and the Hidden History of the Bayeux Tapestry
Avoid the things he needs - like a new spanner or woollen jumper - and impress him with imagination and flair.
Over the chiton, if you could afford it, a woollen cloak was worn, made from an oblong piece of cloth, usually simply draped around the body, sometimes pinned on one side.
The men dress in white linen or pongee trousers, with coat of dark woolen or alpaca; they like foreign shirts and collars, but their headgear is the same as that used by the refugees from Persia over three hundred years ago. The Critic in the Orient
Martin washed woollens that day, by hand, in a large barrel, with strong soft-soap, by means of a hub from a wagon wheel, mounted on a plunger-pole that was attached to a spring-pole overhead.
From your business card I can see that you specialize in woolen piece goods.
It's cold enough for light woollens but not yet time to get into heavier clothing.
* A wamus in old times was a very heavy woollen garment. The Romance of the Colorado River
Warm light from kerosene lamps gives the impression of comfort, but despite woolen Oriental carpets insulating the hardwood floor and the heavy oaken wall panels, the cabin is unpleasantly chilly. Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Channeling Characters
Dressed in his woolen topcoat, Pellew stepped onto the deck.
Careful not to make a sound to disturb his two fellow inmates, he pulled the rough woollen blanket up towards him (it chafed his moisturised chin) and tried to sleep.
Her woollen scarf had been used to tie her body to the tombstone. Times, Sunday Times
TV3’s Target programme will this week detail how scientists found formaldehyde in woollen and cotton clothes at levels 500 times higher than is safe. Latest Risk From China: Poison in Kid’s Clothes | Impact Lab
Their tireless propaganda for clothes-free sun exposure helped to make bathing machines and woollen one-pieces a thing of the past. Times, Sunday Times
Shearmen, who cut the pile to finish woollen cloth, were similarly paid.
Her white woolen dress hung low, almost covering the toes of her own leather boots.
As the latter process of removing the lather is the one universally adopted, the operation of washing with soap and hard water is analogous to that used by the dyer and calico printer for fixing pigments in calico, woolen, or silk tissues. Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883
He cut the half-woven woolen from the loom and threw the mingled mass of cloth and yarn in a pile in a corner of the room. The Blue Cat of Castle Town
Withered crones filled every seat, wrapped in thick black woolen coats, huddled forwards like emperor penguins defending their young.
The exploited woollen workers of Rouen, the overtaxed winegrowers of Languedoc, and the Alpine farmers who were being excluded from forest land resorted to solving their problems by violence.
Erdmute wore a striped woollen wraparound skirt, with a checked shirt, all covered by a large shapeless beige sweater or black cardigan. THE GOLDEN LION
When woollen cloth was woven on a handloom the nap had to be combed in order to raise it.
He was dressed for the festival in a finespun linen shirt and woolen hose and a vest still decorated with a wilted flower. My Demon's Kiss
Sigmund is wearing stained lederhosen, woollen socks and has a pair of disintegrating walking boots on his feet. Family ski: never say never in South Tyrol
Their white robes, made of a heavy kind of woollen stuff, were so constantly bulged out with the air that they seemed made of wood. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847
Silently, Myra helped me slip the red dress off, and I quickly dressed myself in the thick homespun trousers and woolen shirt.
Woolens, and sometimes worsteds, are next "fulled" or felted by being run round and round in a machine while moistened with soap. Textiles and Clothing
She lay down on the only comfortable furniture provided: a cotton bedroll with a woolen quilt to keep her warm and feather-stuffed pillow for her head.
Careful not to make a sound to disturb his two fellow inmates, he pulled the rough woollen blanket up towards him (it chafed his moisturised chin) and tried to sleep.
It will not be amisse when you finde it dankish to wipe over the leaves with a dry woollen cloth. Vanishing England
Before moving to America he had worked in Chorley as an apprentice calico designer and learned the art of engraving at his father's business, who was a woollen manufacturer.
From your business card I can see that you specialize in woolen piece goods . Am I right?
The shearmen who cut the nap of woolen cloth were “wont to go to all the vadletts within the City of the same trade, and then, by covin and conspiracy between them made, they would order that no one among them should work, or serve his own master, until the said master and his servant, or vadlett, had come to an agreement.” The Nature of Technology
Nearly a thousand horse-packs of Yorkshire cloths, such as kerseys, fustians, and pennistons, together with Manchester goods, took up one side and a half of the Duddery, and it was not uncommon to hear that 100,000 pounds worth of woollen manufactures had been sold there in less than one week's time. John Deane of Nottingham Historic Adventures by Land and Sea
The man who gripped his other arm wore the long white woolen haik wound round his body and over his head. HE SHALL THUNDER IN THE SKY
Even when mushing a husky dog sleigh team through the frozen deserts of Iceland she is inappropriately dressed in a thin body-hugging woollen outfit.
While the models were clothed in plain white Bonds underwear, they were draped with warm woollen beanies and scarves.
Sometimes in summer, she wore gumboots for protection; more commonly, her footwear was a pair of woollen socks, or simply the tough skin of her brown bare feet.
Touaricks, leaving a portion of my slight woollen bornouse caught by the hilt of his dagger. Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846
In the winter, women would wear heavier blouses and skirts, shawls, and a cotton or woollen capuche on their heads to keep warm.
This is a good fabric softener for woolens.
As if to acknowledge the significance of the lime catalyst, they call the woolen pouches in which they carry the sacred leaves kuétan yáha, not coca but lime bags. One River
Heavy, woollen - perhaps even wooden - tailoring with over-scaled collars and sleeve detailing opened up to reveal ghastly print linings.
Clearly amused, a young lad peered at me through the hood of his woollen djellaba.
He went to the flat of one of his schoolfellows and came out, an hour later, irrecognizable, rigged out as an Englishman of thirty, in a brown check suit, with knickerbockers, woolen stockings and a cap, a high-colored complexion and a red wig. The Hollow Needle; Further adventures of Arsene Lupin
Over that she pulled on Tamylan's high-necked grey woollen tunic, and then Tam's serviceable woollen cloak. TREASON KEEP
Woollen cloth and timber were sent to Egypt in exchange for linen or papyrus.
Item, in the yeere of our Lord 1394. certaine malefactors of Wismer and others of the Hans vniustly tooke vpon the sea, and caried away with them a packe of woollen cloth of the foresaid Simon, worth 42. pounds, out of a certain crayer of one Thomas Fowler of Lenne being laden and bound for Dantzik in Prussia. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 05 Central and Southern Europe
An equally sure method, is merely to lay a piece of untwilled woollen cloth over the vent, and press it down with the hand; or else turn the lock on it, and hold that down. Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition.
However, winter woollens, knitted or woven, often develop little balls of fluff.
Since 1840 the name tricot has been applied to finely woven woolen cloth, the weave of which is intended to imitate the face effect of a knitted fabric. Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades
Figure 4 outlines the operations that take place in woolen and worsted fabric manufacturing.
I decided to hitchhike my way toward it, and so in the first light I hopped into the bed of a dusty truck along with a group of Quechua farmers clad in pointed woolen caps and bright woolen sarapes.
Their heavy woollen shirts crossed by the broad suspenders, the red of their sashes or leather shine of their belts, their short kersey trousers "stagged" off to leave a gap between the knee and the heavily spiked "cork boots" -- all these were distinctive enough of their class, but most interesting to me were the eyes that peered from beneath their little round hats tilted rakishly askew. Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day
The figure's thick, apparently woolen clothing offers a striking contrast to the fine, silken garments of the Virgin in the Nativity scene.
One skirt of silk or moreen, together with a tiny short one of white muslin and a pair of sensible, warm, woolen equestrian tights will make one more comfortable and will allay that immense swelling about the hips which much be-petticoated old ladies have. The Woman Beautiful or, The Art of Beauty Culture
She bought a Buick for Lossing and posted parcels off to China: costly woolen wraps for the elderly amahs, toys for her nephews, a whole box of new dresses for Grace. PEARL BUCK IN CHINA
Here he wore linen and sipped tepid water, longing for a night spent tucked up by the fire, wrapped in woolen blankets and sipping a proper cup of tea. Archive 2007-07-01
Or a new woollen mill. Times, Sunday Times
She likes to wear woolen socks in winter.
Lateran Congregation is a white woolen cassock with a linen rochet, which is worn as an essential part of the daily dress. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
We can finally say goodbye to our woolens and hello to swimsuits and shorts!
They wore flannel shirts over loose-fitting pants fashioned of droguet, or drugget, a durable and coarse woolen fabric.
He made a machine to make the ply and the family made woollen garments for the boys in the merchant navy.
I could hear the rustle of the maid's woolen skirts as she bobbed a curtsy.
The water was cool, the wooden bench, covered with a woollen poncho, seemed most comfortable, and the view was marvellous…
The pallium is a white woolen vestment worn by the Pope and sent by him to patriarchs, primates and archbishops. Baltimore Catechism No. 3 (of 4)
_Linsey_, a coarse cloth, was made of linen and wool, or occasionally of cotton and wool; _kersey_, a knit woolen cloth, usually coarse and ribbed, manufactured in England as early as the thirteenth century, was especially for hose; _lockram_ was a sort of a coarse linen or hempen cloth, and _penniston_, a coarse woolen frieze. Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century
The British designer tucked striped trousers into laced boots and teamed them with long jackets and woolen cardigans.
In a tightly buttoned square jacket, the collar of which was turned up as far as it would go, with the flaps of his astrachan cap drawn over his cars, his hands in coarse woollen gloves, Maurice defied the cold, flying round the two ponds that formed the JOHANNATEICH, or practising intricate figures with a Maurice Guest
It includes scarves and shawls, silk handbags, silk velvet jackets, embroidered silk and woolen shawls and elegant pashmina shawls.
The rare 350 horsepower engine was used to drive woollen weaving machinery in Bradley Mill until the 1970s.
I'd wear this dress with some thick woollen tights and ankle boots. The Sun
A heavy woolen skirt pleated at the back is held in place by a woven sash.
The screen was woollen, an open weave to let the sound through from behind, with darned patches, brighter than the yellowed screen.
Does donating a slightly bobbly woollen jumper insult those less well-off? Times, Sunday Times
So you fold the sheet so it covers the full length of the bed, under the pillows, and trap it under a woolen throw, covered again by another sheet.
A focal point of her final collection is a woollen skirt, blouse and long coat - all in neutral colours - with a cream silk organza overcoat on top.
Gee!" she giggled, "after going to bed every night over there muffled in woolen pajamas and blankets till I looked like Peary, a nightie like this feels positively indecent. Lance Mannion:
He wore a flat cap, old woolen trousers, and a brown shirt that was several sizes too large for him.
Son-in-law Josias Engelbrecht took home the two other complete beds, though they had only two cushions and no woolen coverlet, and sold for less than half the price. Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa
Also new farm shop including Liberty goods and woollens loft with large selection of designer knitwear.
A home should fit people like a favourite woollen jumper - warm and cosy. Times, Sunday Times
Woollen cloth and timber were sent to Egypt in exchange for linen or papyrus.
Men wore hats or caps, a kirtle or knee-length coat, shirt, waistcoat, trousers, woolen stockings, and shoes or high boots.
For if the afterbirth have come away, the navel is ligatured off from the afterbirth with a woollen thread and is then cut above the ligature; and at the place where it has been tied it heals up, and the remaining portion drops off. The History of Animals
I like to refer to the tuque as the “giant retarded woolen foreskin” of the hat world Regretsy – CALL FOR SKANTS!
Woolen blankets often have fluff on them.
Industries were established soon after the settlement was founded - a brewery in 1843 and a flax mill, a tannery, solar salt works and a woollen mill by 1845.
There about twenty feet away, in a dirty woolen himation, stood a tall, unshaven man. Rogue Of Gor
She hadn't had a pair of kidskin gloves in ages; she'd had to make do with knit woolen gloves that had been darned and redarned so many times there wasn't much left of the original material on the fingers. Red dust
Where are the giant tea pots, warmed by knitted woollen cosies, to provide refreshments? Times, Sunday Times
We still suggest woolen hoods for the Fourth of July picnics, but you can open a window now without fear of dread contagion.
He points out that the beard and headgear - top hats, billycock hats, or woolen stocking caps - are symbols of senior male status.
The government therefore imposed restrictions on the import, and even wearing, of cotton cloth to protect the woollen textile industry.
He was wearing his black woollen overcoat again, the homburg on his head. A NASTY DOSE OF DEATH
Suddenly the line flashed through his hand, stinging even through the "nippers," the woolen circlets supposed to protect it. Captains Courageous
She felt warm in her underdress of woollen kirtle and green cord-bound gown. A SHRINE OF MURDERS
All the women at present were busy knitting woollen garments; some were learners and did their work slowly and painstakingly. Modern Literatures of the Non-Western World: Where the Waters Are Born
He said the robber, who was wearing a grey hooded fleece with a dark woollen scarf tied around his face, ran off in the direction of St Saviourgate.
The fine collection offers tweeds, woollen ties and Shetland hand knits. Times, Sunday Times
A brown and blue woollen cap was still on his head but askew.
A few workshops produce domestic cloth such as woolen blankets and covers, but this type of weaving is on the decline in the face of cheap, factory-made goods.
These padded garments, now known as gambesons, were made by sewing fleeces, raw wool or layers of woollen cloth between two layers of linen, felt or leather.
The other part of the story is how it has thrived, and that was mainly through its canny trade in woollen goods.
This cold still air trapped smoke from the furnaces and factories and held it like a grey woollen blanket. Bomber
If the weather is not too cold, and if the animal is in a comfortable stable, the following method may be tried: Have a tub of hot water handy to the stable door; soak a woolen blanket in the water, then quickly wring as much water as possible out of it and wrap it around the chest. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
Charlotte, the Yale graduate in her unflattering woollen tank-top is made to feel dowdy and dull by this jabbering Valley girl.
But I must not anticipate -- a beautiful veil of brown tissue, none of your woolleny, gruff fabrics, fit only for penance, but a silken gossamery cloud, soft as a baby's check. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863
I had also found a more suitable top, a black body hugging woollen skivvy.
The hats will also fit under a snowsuit's or jacket's hood, giving a warm woolen lining to the waterproof fabric.
[p. 293] of furniture are, a handmill, which is used in summer, when there is no water in the Wadys to drive the mills; some copper kettles; and a few mats; in the richer houses some woollen Lebaet are met with, which are coarse woollen stuffs used for carpets, and in winter for horse - cloths: real carpets or mattrasses are seldom seen, unless it be upon the arrival of strangers of consequence. Travels in Syria and the Holy Land
There were woollen rugs on the polished floorboards and, appropriately, a print of a local, long-dead bushranger on a wall. MURDER SONG
The men wore knee length wrap-around skirts or kilt like woollens as well as tunics, cloaks and even one-piece garments.
At first it had seemed such a good idea, to sit at the spinning wheel and spin the soft cream wool of her Jacob's sheep into fine woollen thread.
She had been wrapped in a woollen blanket and the only clothes she wore were a felt hat and fur shoes.
“Jilbáb,” a long coarse veil or gown which in Barbary becomes a “Jallábiyah,” in a striped and hooded cloak of woollen stuff. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Nutty knitwear - woollen boots, sparkly, spartan leg warmers, bizarre capes and frocks combined to create a blindingly colourful but incomprehensible collection.
She is wearing the same woollen coat she wore for her 1965 mugshot. Times, Sunday Times
When woollen cloth was woven on a handloom the nap had to be combed in order to raise it.
Generally even shades are readily obtained on any kind of woollen fabric. The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics
He was perspiring in his thick woollen suit.
The other man had brown hair and a wispy moustache and wore faded denim jeans and a grey woollen jumper.
What women called bonnets in those days were close thick hoods, made of silk, velvet, fur, or woollen stuff of some sort. The King's Daughters
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Within a short time of his election, a formal inauguration ceremony takes place, at which the woollen pallium is bestowed upon him.
Woollen garments will retain their natural softness if one tablespoon of borax is added to every five litres of warm soapy water.
The shortwool noils are generally used in producing plain and fancy woolens or soft fabrics.
Remove cushions and soft toys, and buy bedding made from synthetic fabric rather than using feather pillows and woollen blankets.
The goodmen with their heavy top-boots or jack-boots, their milled or frieze stockings, their warm periwigs surmounted by fur caps or beaver hats or hoods; and with their many-caped great-coats or full round cloaks were dressed with a sufficient degree of comfort, though they did not possess the warm woollen and silken underclothing which now make a man's winter attire so comfortable. Sabbath in Puritan New England
Woollen clothes often prickle my skin.
Euangelists that they shall auouch all those wools and woollen fels vnder his name vnto whom they doe properly belong, & vnder the name of none other: and then taking sufficient security from the owner of those wools and fels, or in his name, in regard whereof you wil vndertake to warrantize, and make good vnto vs those penalties and forfaitures which shal vnto vs appertaine, for all wools, and woollen fels conueied or sent by any of the foresaid merchants vnto any of the said prouinces of Flanders, Brabant, and The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
She'd been careful to dye equal amounts of all three kinds of thread, too - linen for embroidering on light fabrics, sheep's wool for tapestry work on canvas, such as highborn ladies indulged in, or for embroidering woolen clothing and leather, and chirra-wool for work on heavier fabrics than linen. Owlsight
To convey a rich, warm, and cozy look, use heavily textured fabrics like kilims, woven woolens, and tapestries, and dark, fiery colors like reds and oranges.
In the past, the only choice we had was between silly woollen hats or the plastic things attached to anoraks. Times, Sunday Times
London and elsewhere, as well as innumerable trains of pack-horses laden with Yorkshire goods from Leeds, Halifax, and other towns in an apparently endless succession, bound for the Duddery, the great mart for wholesale dealers in woollen manufactures, which was to occupy a considerable portion of the meadow in which the fair was held. John Deane of Nottingham Historic Adventures by Land and Sea
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It in turn from Old French burel ` woolen cloth, 'and that from Latin burra VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 4
The fingers were cold, but his stomach under the layers of woollens was warm enough. THE WHITE DOVE
Both men and women wore fur or woolen hats and cloaks.
Wealthy people were able to dress and furnish their homes with cottons and silk-needlework textiles from India; woven and painted silks from China; silks, woolens, and worsteds from Great Britain; and fine linens from the Continent.
With woollen blankets wrapped round their legs and a cup of tea in hand, the couple were prepared to stay for another night. Times, Sunday Times
England as to run wool to France, our ladies, by making use of wool as part of their head-dresses [_lets down the tail and takes out the wool_], keep it at home, and encourage the woollen manufactory. A Lecture On Heads As Delivered By Mr. Charles Lee Lewes, To Which Is Added, An Essay On Satire, With Forty-Seven Heads By Nesbit, From Designs By Thurston, 1812
Two of the anonymous figures are wearing business suits, the third dressed in geek attire: woollen vest over shirt with long hair swept over the rims of thick glasses.
The 500th report is on ordinary naphthalene, the principle ingredient in mothballs and the familiar odor in millions of closets filled with winter's woolens.
Greek men tended to travel light, with only a pouch slung over their shoulder containing a single change of clothes - a short cape or chlamys; some cooking utensils; and a woollen blanket for bedding.
In winter we wear woollen clothes to keep us warm.
Aran cable woollen cardigan with ethnic embroidery, ￡42.99.
Thus fulled woolens such as melton which is a heavily fulled, napped, closely woven fabric are used to make overcoats. HOME COMFORTS
But it has progressed to huddling in a big wool blanket at night, with big woollen socks on my feet, holding out on using the heater.
A thin woolen blanket had been lain on the wood-planked floor with several lit glass jar candles and votives surrounding the blanket and resting on the railing.
Canadian in his thick woollens and furs is a healthier subject, a worthier type, than the North Queenslander, stripped to the waist in the full blaze of the sun, glorying in his own vigour, proud of his magnificent heritage, and scornful of the opinions of those who have never experienced that supreme zest of life unpurchasable outside the tropic zone? Tropic Days
He wears a woollen polo shirt and neatly pressed suit trousers hiked up to his stomach.
The few clouds resemble little woolen pompoms.
The man involved was in his 30s with shoulder length dark hair, wearing a black woollen hat and baggy clothing.
Surviving passengers huddled under woolen or aluminum blankets in a middle school on the Italian mainland of Porto Santo Stefano, where passengers were ferried early Saturday from Giglio. Costa Concordia Disaster: Italian Cruise Ship Runs Aground Off Tuscany Coast
Hanuman asked as he pulled on his spare set of woollens and gloves. THE BROKEN GOD
She wore a rich, striped, red silk sarong, and a very short, green silk kabaya with diamond clasps; but I saw very little of her dress or herself, because she was almost enveloped in a pure white veil of a fine woolen material spangled with gold stars, and she concealed so much of her face with it, in consequence of the presence of the Rajah The Golden Chersonese and the way thither
Just a wet walker in a woollen hat, eating a cheese sandwich in the rain.
_ at the very bottom of the wall lay a little woollen pompon or tassel, just the kind of pompon that gives a finish to a pierrot's shoes. The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol
A combination of factors has left Bradford manufacturers stunned by an unexpected upsurge of interest in Yorkshire worsteds and woollens.
He wore a serviceable but plain jerkin over a woolen shirt that was warm and comfortable but darned in two places, and his boots could have used a shinier coat of polish.
When it was cold, knee length, turned over socks and woollen jerseys were worn, whilst in the summer short sleeved shirts and Fair Isle slipovers were popular.
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In old photos of my homeland in Bohemia I see our shepherd, with his broad-brimmed hat and his loden coat, leaning against a tree, knitting a woolen sock.
The woollen choirboy under my heel!
The light clothes which will do for summer need to be changed for serious woollens, hoods and gloves for the freezing winds of winter.
The formation of hydrocellulose has a very important bearing in woollen manufacture. The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student
Her woollen coats and cashmere dresses were technically brilliant.
Curious stories are told of Maroquine adventurers leaving Tangier and Fez as camel-drivers and town-porters, and then assuming the character and style of merchants in Gibraltar, throwing over their shoulders a splendid woollen burnouse, and folding round their heads a thoroughly orthodox turban in large swelling folds of milk-white purity. Travels in Morocco

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