This test method is intended for determining the dimensional changes of woven or knitted fabrics, made of fibers other than wool, to be expected when the cloth is subjected to laundering procedures commonly used in the commercial laundry and the home.

The process used to tailor, patch, mend and reinforce cloth fostered the development of sewing techniques, and the decorative possibilities of sewing led to the art of embroidery.

Anthropomorphic kites made from cloth and wood were used in religious ceremonies to send prayers to the gods.

These richly grassed ' meersen ' (" water-meadows ": a word related to the English ' marsh ', but not meaning exactly the same: a ' meers ' is not permanently under water ) were ideally suited for herding sheep, the wool of which was used for making cloth.

Soon afterwards the British added a long cloth which was used to tie chemical-soaked mouth pads into place, and which was called the Black Veil Respirator.

* Hickory cloth, a hard-wearing cotton twill similar to denim, used for North American workshirts and coveralls

Like many other colors ( orange, rose, and violet are the best-known ), indigo gets its name from an object in the natural world — the plant named indigo once used for dyeing cloth ( see also Indigo dye ).

Denim is the color of Denim cloth, which after being dyed with Indigo dye, is used to make jeans.

Flat knitting, on the other hand, is used, in its most basic form, to make flat, rectangular pieces of cloth.

Various techniques such as yūzen dye resist are used for applying decoration and patterns to the base cloth.

In contrast kilts worn by Irish pipers are made from solid-colour cloth, with saffron or green being the most widely used colours.

Another innovation was the continuous dampening system first introduced by Dahlgren instead of the old method which is still used on older presses ( conventional dampening ), which are rollers covered with molleton ( cloth ) which absorbs the water.

A style used by medieval English Longbowmen and several other cultures, an arrow bag is a simple drawstring cloth sack with a leather spacer at the top to keep the arrows divided.

* Shoe brush and polishing cloth: used to apply polish to shoes.

Initially these shutters were made from a cloth material ( which was in later years often rubberised ), but some manufacturers used other materials instead.

In Taiwan, facial tattoos of the Atayal tribe are named " Badasun "; they are used to demonstrate that an adult man can protect his homeland, and that an adult woman is qualified to weave cloth and perform housekeeping.

Formerly, materials used for insulation included treated cloth or paper and various oil-based products.

Although cultivated since antiquity, it was the invention of the cotton gin that so lowered the cost of production that led to its widespread use, and it is the most widely used natural fiber cloth in clothing today.

The root produces a fine red colouring material which has been used as a cloth dye and to give colour to tinctures, vegetable oils, wines, varnishes, etc.

The first references to hosiery can be found in works of Hesiod, where Romans are said to have used leather or cloth in forms of strips to cover their lower body parts.

A piece of matte board, a plastic " card ", or a wad of cloth is often used to push the ink into the incised lines.

It was probably first developed as a means of printing patterns on cloth, and by the 5th century was used in China for printing text and images on paper.

Budding got the idea of the lawnmower after seeing a machine in a local cloth mill which used a cutting cylinder ( or bladed reel ) mounted on a bench to trim the irregular nap from the surface of woollen cloth and give a smooth finish.

The first material called " duck tape " was long strips of plain cotton duck cloth used in making shoes stronger, for decoration on clothing, and for wrapping steel cables or electrical conductors to protect them from corrosion or wear.

In Africa many forms of value store have been used including beads, ingots, ivory, various forms of weapons, livestock, the manilla currency, ochre and other earth oxides, and so on.

Early crochet hooks ranged from primitive bent needles in a cork handle, used by poor Irish lace workers, to expensively crafted silver, brass, steel, ivory and bone hooks set into a variety of handles, some of which were better designed to show off a lady's hands than they were to work with thread.

Besides bone, materials like ivory, wood and recently plastics like cellulose acetate have been used.

In Neolithic times, daggers were made of materials such as flint, ivory or bone and were used as weapons since the earliest periods of human civilization.

Aside from elephants, the word has been used to refer to ivory, elephant tusks, musical horns made of elephant tusks, or a musical instrument resembling such horns.

As early as predynastic Egypt, an emblem known as a serekh was used to indicate the extent of influence of a particular regime, sometimes carved on ivory labels attached to trade goods, but also used to identify military allegiances and in a variety of other ways.

Elephant ivory has been the most important source, but ivory from many species including the hippopotamus, walrus, pig, mammoth, sperm whale, and narwhal has been used.

The trade in certain teeth and tusks other than elephant is well established and widespread, therefore " ivory " can correctly be used to describe any mammalian teeth or tusks of commercial interest which is large enough to be carved or scrimshawed ( crocodile teeth are also used ).

In the Philippines, ivory was also used to craft the faces and hands of Catholic icons and images of saints.

Mammoth ivory is used today to make handcrafted knives and similar implements.

Other commonly used materials include glass, such as fused-glass or enamel ; wood, often carved or turned ; shells and other natural animal substances such as bone and ivory ; natural clay ; polymer clay ; and even plastics.

The bridges ( Ji ) used to be made of ivory, but nowadays are typically made of plastic, and occasionally made of wood.

The pipes of the pan flute are typically made from bamboo or giant cane ; other materials used include wood, plastic, metal and ivory.

The buffalo hunters of the American West used Sharps, Remington and Springfield single-shots ; ivory and trophy hunters in Africa and Asia used Martini and break-action " express rifles " and " elephant guns.

Preserved examples of various forms of spoons used by the ancient Egyptians include those composed of ivory, flint, slate and wood ; many of them carved with religious symbols.

The white tangents were made of ivory, the black of ebony, but now artificial materials like plastic are used to cover the wooden keys.

Bone or ivory would be used for masts and spars, and as a thin veneer over the hull.

In the Helmeted Hornbill the casque is not hollow but is filled with ivory and is used as a battering ram used in dramatic aerial jousts.

During the summers, when the weather favored travel more, each settlement would send an army of men to hunt in Disko Bay above the Arctic Circle for food and other valuable commodities such as seals ( used for rope ), ivory from Walrus tusks, and beached whales.

The veneers used are primarily woods, but may include bone, ivory, turtle-shell ( conventionally called " tortoiseshell "), mother-of-pearl, pewter, brass or fine metals.