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  2. Pattern (sewing) - Wikipedia

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    Fitting a nettle/canvas-fabric on a dress form. In sewing and fashion design, a pattern is the template from which the parts of a garment are traced onto woven or knitted fabrics before being cut out and assembled. Patterns are usually made of paper, and are sometimes made of sturdier materials like paperboard or cardboard if they need to be ...

  3. Woven fabric - Wikipedia

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    Technically, a woven fabric is any fabric made by interlacing two or more threads at right angles to one another. [1] Woven fabrics can be made of natural fibers, synthetic fibers, or a mixture of both, such as cotton and polyester . Woven fabrics are used for clothing, garments, decorations, furniture, carpets and other uses.

  4. Fabric computing - Wikipedia

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    While the term "fabric" has also been used in association with storage area networks and with switched fabric networking, the introduction of compute resources provides a complete "unified" computing system. [citation needed] Other terms used to describe such fabrics include "unified fabric", [4] "data center fabric" and "unified data center ...

  5. Procter & Gamble - Wikipedia

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    Once again focusing on laundry, Procter & Gamble began making Downy-branded fabric softener in 1960 and Bounce fabric softener sheets in 1972. [18] From 1957 to 1968, Procter & Gamble owned Clorox , the leading American manufacturer of liquid bleach; however, the Federal Trade Commission challenged the acquisition, and the U.S. Supreme Court ...

  6. Polytetrafluoroethylene - Wikipedia

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    Advertisement of the Happy Pan, a Teflon-coated pan from the 1960s Advertisement for Zepel, the trade name used to market Teflon as a fabric treatment PTFE thermal cover showing impact craters, from NASA's Ultra Heavy Cosmic Ray Experiment (UHCRE) on the Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF) Logo of Teflon, the commonly known brand name of PTFE-based compositions manufactured by Chemours

  7. Fabric of Saint Peter - Wikipedia

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    The Fabric of Saint Peter (Latin: Reverenda Fabrica Sancti Petri, Italian: Fabbrica di San Pietro) is a Catholic institution responsible for the conservation and maintenance of St. Peter's Basilica and exercising vigilance over its sacred character and the organization of visitors.

  8. History of clothing and textiles - Wikipedia

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    Scraps of wool fabric from the Bronze Age and Iron Age have been found in the salt mines of Hallstatt Austria. The fabric scraps were residuals of rags used in the mines. The rags, in turn were scraps from worn out garments. The Bronze age fabrics are relatively coarse in part due to the coarse wool available from the sheep at the time.

  9. Knitted fabric - Wikipedia

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    Knitted fabric is a textile that results from knitting, the process of inter-looping of yarns or inter-meshing of loops. Its properties are distinct from woven fabric in that it is more flexible and can be more readily constructed into smaller pieces, making it ideal for socks and hats.