spun cotton

You would have a very mean opinion of a Manchester man if he spun cotton for no other purpose.

The more comfortable and colorful spun cotton is used to weave cloth for everyday wearing.

It gets its name from the nature of the soft spun cotton thread, which was braided then used to form the wick for candles.

The brand uses ring spun cotton as standard along with the famous long staple Egyptian cotton.

From one of the curved red-tipped thorns hung a fine red thread of spun cotton.

It is considered that Ixcateopan spun cotton that was used to make suits of the mexicas soldiers.

The box yielded, from layers and layers of spun cotton, a collection of key rings, all with little toys attached.

The canal basin was used to deliver raw cotton and coal and to transport spun cotton away from the complex.

Traditionally tais were made from locally sourced and spun cotton although many weavers have incorporated imported cotton into their designs.

He would bring bobbins to the women at the looms when they called for them, and collected the full bobbins of spun cotton or wool thread.

Following the invention of the flying shuttle for weaving cotton in 1733 the demand for spun cotton increased enormously in England.

The textiles were most likely woven by women at habitation sites from spun cotton and wool (Silverman and Proulx, 2002).

The traditional Igbo weaving as demonstrated in Akwete processes sisal-hemp, raffia and spun cotton into finished products.

It also allowed the finished products of the area to be exported widely, the Butterley Company's castings and Arkwright's spun cotton.

Until the reunification of Germany the firm was the leading manufacturer of textile machines for the production of spun cotton in the Eastern Bloc.

Passing through the ownership of a series of successful companies, Crofthead Mill was once the biggest producer of spun cotton in Renfrewshire.

Supplied with cotton by merchants, and paid by the piece, cottagers spun cotton into thread and wove it into cloth.

He returned to Hispaniola and the Taíno (Arawaks) in 1493 demanding food, gold, spun cotton and whatever else they could get from the Indians.

The Indus Valley civilization spun cotton since at least 3000 BCE, as indicated by the ruins of Mohenjo-daro.

He wore a sleeveless vest and short pants of roughly spun cotton, and around his lean hips was a fine leather belt from which hung a bone-handled knife.

Ramco Textile division (Line of activity : High quality Open end and Ring spun Cotton Yarn)

Resistance by workers to the perceived threat to jobs delayed the widespread introduction of this technology, even though the higher rate of production generated an increased demand for spun cotton.

Inside it is a lead casket containing coins, a copy of the local newspaper, three cops of spun cotton, and a length of cloth manufactured in the local area.

Base fabric is mostly low twist yarn cotton, with the decorative motifs consisting of coarser or heavier spun cotton, low twist silk, or shiny rayon.

The way Disney spun cotton candy around my mother's suffering reminded me of Ali MacGraw's blissful description of her six-minute struggle with cancer in "Love Story" (1970).