Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Mill No. 2 built in 1892, reincorporated as Gosnold Mills Company in 1902. 8. Kilburn Mills. 2. 1904. Rodney French Boulevard. 126,000. Enlarged in 1915; as of 2015, rented out to various private businesses such as an antique store, a used record store, a vintage clothing shop, and artists' studios/galleries. 9.
English Fairy Tales. " Rumpelstiltskin " (/ ˌrʌmpəlˈstɪltskɪn / RUMP-əl-STILT-skin; [1] German: Rumpelstilzchen pronounced [ʁʊmpl̩ʃtiːltsçn̩]) is a German fairy tale [2] collected by the Brothers Grimm in the 1812 edition of Children's and Household Tales. [2] The story is about a midget who spins straw into gold in exchange for a ...
Fibers to be spun are bound to a distaff held in her left hand. Spinning is an ancient textile art in which plant, animal or synthetic fibres are drawn out and twisted together to form yarn. For thousands of years, fibre was spun by hand using simple tools, the spindle and distaff.
Silk was a common offering by the emperor to these tribes in exchange for peace. Silk is described in a chapter of the Fan Shengzhi shu from the Western Han period (206 BC–9 AD), and a surviving calendar for silk production in an Eastern Han (25–220 AD) document. The two other known works on silk from the Han period are lost.
Pages. 176. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love is a 1981 collection of short stories by American writer Raymond Carver, as well as the title of one of the stories in the collection. Considered by many one of American literature's most ambitious short-story collections, it was this collection that turned Raymond Carver into a household ...
Tsumugi. (cloth) Tsumugi (紬) is a traditional slub-woven silk fabric from Japan. It is a tabby weave material woven from yarn produced using silk noil, short- staple silk fibre (as opposed to material produced using longer, filament yarn silk fibres). The short silk fibres are degummed [1] and, traditionally, the yarns are hand-joined to form ...
The Dancing Girl of Izu or The Izu Dancer (伊豆の踊子, Izu no odoriko) is a short story [1] [2] [3] (or, accounting for its length, a novella) [4] [5] [6] by Japanese writer and Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata first published in 1926. [7]
Such a short thread produced a silk with an inferior lustre. In 1836 Gibson and Campbell patented a 'long silk' machine for spinning staples up to 250 mm. Carding and combing (known as dressing) remained a problem until Lister invented the self-acting dressing machine in 1877. Spun silk is softer than thrown silk and easily blended with other ...