The Indians who came aboard ship to collect the mail also interested her greatly, even if she was suitably shocked, according to the customs of the society in which she had been reared, to find them `` naked, except a piece of cotton cloth wrapped around their middle ''.

In all the talk of feudal rights, the knights and bishops must never forget the woolworkers, nor was it easy to do so, for all along the road to Italy they passed the Florentine pack trains going home with their loads of raw wool from England and rough Flemish cloth, the former to be spun and woven by the Arte Della Lana and the latter to be refined and dyed by the Arte Della Calimala with the pigment recently discovered in Asia Minor by one of their members, Bernardo Rucellai, the secret of which they jealously kept for themselves.

The prize was an old-fashioned, woven cloth hammock, complete with cross-top pillow, fringed side pieces, and hooks for hanging.

and he could tell, simply by the feel of it, whether it was made of wood, iron, cloth, rubber, and so on.

this mixture was then spread on a cloth and wrapped around the affected part.

As the cloth dried, more of the mixture was applied, and after twenty-four hours the felon was supposed to be `` killed ''.

For erysipelas a mixture of one dram borax and one ounce glycerine was applied to the afflicted part on linen cloth.

It was dark inside the room but enough light spilled from the restaurant behind her to enable her to make out a round table with a green cloth top.

According to the accounts given by Pindar and the tragedians, Agamemnon was slain in a bath by his wife alone, a blanket of cloth or a net having first been thrown over him to prevent resistance.

In 591 at the age of 18, Abu Bakr went into trade and adopted the profession of cloth merchant, which was the family's business.

When carried, the Ark was always wrapped in a veil, in skins and a blue cloth, and was carefully concealed, even from the eyes of the priests who carried it.

A former cloth warehouse was converted into a small theatre in 1974, and the alternative culture center KIFF ( Culture in the fodder factory ) was established in a former animal fodder factory.

He was dressed in a costly suit made of Frankish cloth with golden threads, and he wore a belt with a costly buckle.

The kusari was sometimes concealed entirely between layers of cloth.

Cheddar cheese was sometimes ( and still can be found ) packaged in black wax, but was more commonly packaged in larded cloth, which was impermeable to contaminants, but still allowed the cheese to " breathe ", although this practice is now limited to artisan cheese makers.

Caterina Benincasa was born in Siena, Italy, to Giacomo di Benincasa, a cloth dyer who ran his enterprise with the help of his sons, and Lapa Piagenti, possibly the daughter of a local poet.

In the eighteenth century, England was famous for its woollen and worsted cloth.

There now was an artificial demand for woven cloth.

Production of printed cloth in Lancashire in 1750 was estimated to be 50, 000 pieces of, but in 1850 it was 20, 000, 000 pieces.

The cloth is laid on one half of the bottom at a time.

When the whole bottom has hardened, use a disk sander to feather the edges of the cloth at the keel line and near the spray rail.

I laid three layers of glass cloth on the inside of the stem, also installing a bow eye at this time.

The specimen of fabric is a rectangle at least 22 by 22 inches, except for cloth narrower than 22 inches, in which case the specimen is the entire width of the fabric.

He wears the traditional royal nemes head cloth, with a protective uraeus serpent at the brow.

Occasionally, a cardinal wears a scarlet ferraiolo which is a cape worn over the shoulders, tied at the neck in a bow by narrow strips of cloth in the front, without any ' trim ' or piping on it.

Elizabeth was placed in Edward's household and carried the chrisom, or baptismal cloth, at his christening.

While the use of linen has been shown in archaeological evidence, the use of cotton-and cotton-based canvas-is disputed since the access to large amounts of cotton cloth was not widely available in northern Europe at this time.

According to some accounts Friele was a goldsmith for the bishop at Mainz, but most likely, he was involved in the cloth trade.

However, the decapitation cloth of St. John is kept at the Aachen Cathedral.

* Kit bag, a large cylindrical bag made of cloth ( or other fabric ) with a drawstring closure at the top

3, 000 German nationals were employed at Hochwerk, all equipped with respirators and clothing constructed of a poly-layered rubber / cloth / rubber sandwich that was destroyed after the tenth wearing.

Colorful cloth pom-poms dangle at sensitive and vulnerable spots around the anatomy of the ponies to protect them.

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.

In the case of men, it consisted only of a loincloth suspended with a string at the waist, while in the case of women, it was a piece of cloth that extended from the navel to the knees.

Later, the invention of the spinning jenny in 1764 and Richard Arkwright's spinning frame ( based on the roller spinning machine ) in 1769 enabled British weavers to produce cotton yarn and cloth at much higher rates.

Improving technology and increasing control of world markets allowed British traders to develop a commercial chain in which raw cotton fibers were ( at first ) purchased from colonial plantations, processed into cotton cloth in the mills of Lancashire, and then exported on British ships to captive colonial markets in West Africa, India, and China ( via Shanghai and Hong Kong ).

# The cloth is finally sold back to the kings and landlords of India who got the money to buy this expensive cloth out of the poor peasants of India who worked at seven cents a day.

Tyndale preached and studied " at his book " in London for some time, relying on the help of a cloth merchant, Humphrey Monmouth.

The unstitched cloth signifies unified and complete devotion to the task at hand, with no digression.

The precious cloth remains uncut, and people of various sizes or the same person at different sizes can wear the garment.

The early Tang government established both the grain tax and cloth tax at a relatively low rate for each household under the empire.

Their distinctive garment was a scapular of two strips of dark cloth, worn on the breast and back, and fastened at the shoulders.