Search Results for: Wool not carbonised
made by all plants, it is probably the most abundant organic compound on earth.many varieties of plant fibers exist such as hairs (cotton, kapok), fiber-sheafs of dicoltylic plants or vessel-sheafs of monocotylic plants (e.g. flax, hemp, jute, and ramie), and hard fibers (sisal, henequen, and coir), not
husks from which the coconut has been removed for the copra. the husks are retted in rivers, and the fiber separated by hand beating with sticks or by a decortication machine. the fibers are washed, dried, and hackled, and used in upholstery, cordage, fabrics, mats, and brushes. related posts pashmina wool...
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--so her thought was turned upon the fortune of arachne--proud, who would not ever yield to her the praise won by the art of deftly weaving wool, a girl who had not fame for place of birth, nor fame for birth, but only fame for skill!
for it was well known that her father idmon dwelt in colophon; where, at his humble trade, he dyed in phocean purples, fleecy wool. her mother, also of the lower class, had died. arachne in a mountain town hypaepae by skill had grown so famous in the land of lydia, that unnumbered curious nymphs eager...
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