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  • 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 heat contracted the woollen garment
  • In winter we wear woollen clothes to keep us warm.
  • mothproof woollen clothes during the summer
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  • 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.
  • 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?
  • 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.
  • I wear woollen suits, woollen jumpers at the weekend and in this weather in the office. Times, Sunday Times
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • This passion helped the export of prized Kashmir woollen caftans and shawls to various countries.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
  • The principal manufactures are winceys, ginghams, woollen shirtings, flannels, linen thread, linen yarn, ropes, and fishing nets; and there are engineering and ironfounding works.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • She felt warm in her underdress of woollen kirtle and green cord-bound gown. A SHRINE OF MURDERS
  • [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 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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • The first impression you have of him is of a wise and playful octogenarian, warmly dressed in denims and thick woollen sweater.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Products from logwood formed an important source of dyestuffs for silk, and more important, woollen cloth.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.

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