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Sentence Examples She was wearing a light dressing gown and a pale blue woollen hat because her hair had never grown back after chemotherapy. These boots will give a good grip on wet decks and worn with woollen thermal or neoprene socks will keep your feet as warm as toast. Clearly amused, a young lad peered at me through the hood of his woollen djellaba. When woollen cloth was woven on a handloom the nap had to be combed in order to raise it. The screen was woollen, an open weave to let the sound through from behind, with darned patches, brighter than the yellowed screen. He once turned up at Buckingham Palace in a fawn raincoat, woollen gloves and an old silk hat. This passion helped the export of prized Kashmir woollen caftans and shawls to various countries. Now, you just cannot stand the sight of those woollen pullovers, the windcheaters. You don't even need heavy woolens, as in Gulmarg you'll be able to hire snowboots, mufflers, woollen socks, windproof jackets and caps. At first it had seemed such a good idea, to sit at the spinning wheel and spin the soft cream wool of her Jacob's sheep into fine woollen thread. The Princess arrived at 2.15 pm, wearing a green checked woollen coat over a red roll-neck and silk scarf with black boots, gloves and handbag. Careful not to make a sound to disturb his two fellow inmates, he pulled the rough woollen blanket up towards him and tried to sleep. He also wore leather shoes, a leather belt and a dark green woollen jacket over his shirt. He also had on a green jumper, a pair of dark blue woollen gloves, jeans and trainers. Among these were packets of cigarettes, thick woollen socks and gloves, and chocolate. But it has progressed to huddling in a big wool blanket at night, with big woollen socks on my feet, holding out on using the heater. He was dressed in clean blue woollen trousers and a spotless white linen shirt. Paul disappeared upstairs, and came back down with a dry sweater and a thick woollen blanket. Most players were employed in heavy industry in the adjoining suburbs, in engineering firms, woollen mills and the railway workshop. The suit is of woollen cloth lavishly embroidered with silver and silver gilt thread and lined with crimson silk. Show More Sentences Preposterously skinny, he is wearing a light grey woollen zip-up top over a white T-shirt and dark blue jeans. My uniform was a navy gym frock and blazer, a white blouse, and black lisle or woollen stockings. For once he was not wearing one of his woollen sweaters, but a denim jacket over a rugby shirt. To wear our traditional woollen clothes, or even to speak Balti is considered a sign of backwardness. To enhance their ability to identify primary and secondary colours, the kids are allowed to play with woollen balls. Unshaven, scruffy, with greasy brown hair, he slouches in a woollen ski hat, totally self-absorbed. While the models were clothed in plain white Bonds underwear, they were draped with warm woollen beanies and scarves. He was wearing a white shirt, brown woollen trousers, a navy woollen jacket belted with a black belt and the cloak the soldier had mentioned. Village cures in their black cassocks and shovel hats, and monks in sandals and brown woollen robes, were everywhere. Remove cushions and soft toys, and buy bedding made from synthetic fabric rather than using feather pillows and woollen blankets. Try changing feather pillows, woollen blankets and woollen clothing to cotton or synthetic materials. In the winter, women would wear heavier blouses and skirts, shawls, and a cotton or woollen capuche on their heads to keep warm. There were people in warm, woollen scarves and thick, tall boots, and there were others in large, heavy overcoats and fluffy ear muffs. The other part of the story is how it has thrived, and that was mainly through its canny trade in woollen goods. Charlotte, the Yale graduate in her unflattering woollen tank-top is made to feel dowdy and dull by this jabbering Valley girl. I'd planned to arrive at their house one day all smiles and carrying a little pair of woollen booties. Those who had struck it rich wore black woollen trousers and Napoleon boots, and sported silk sashes and gaily coloured kerchiefs. To preserve the natural softness of woollen blankets, add one tablespoon of glycerine to warm soapy water. He was wearing a woollen cap and a fleece jacket with white squares on either side of the zip. Manufactures embrace woollen and worsted goods, silks, haircloths, crapes, stockings, gloves, shoes, paper, leather, iron implements, and malt. Show More Sentences Inside the hardware store stood a burly old man wearing a faded woollen jersey that advertised a brand of power drills. The man involved was in his 30s with shoulder length dark hair, wearing a black woollen hat and baggy clothing. He wears a woollen polo shirt and neatly pressed suit trousers hiked up to his stomach. Within a short time of his election, a formal inauguration ceremony takes place, at which the woollen pallium is bestowed upon him. An old woman covered her bare shoulders with a woollen shawl as Estelle struggled with the butter churn by the doorway. He was wearing a black, woollen knee length overcoat, dark jeans and an orange or peachy coloured long sleeve shirt. Trowbridge was developed as a major woollen town, with the wealth of clothiers ensuring a rich-built legacy within the town. The government therefore imposed restrictions on the import, and even wearing, of cotton cloth to protect the woollen textile industry. I will describe the process that I used for fulling my woollen dyed material. He made a machine to make the ply and the family made woollen garments for the boys in the merchant navy. The first impression you have of him is of a wise and playful octogenarian, warmly dressed in denims and thick woollen sweater. With winter at its peak, the sari can be teamed even with woollen blouses and pullovers. The girls were all in simple woollen dresses and white linen smocks, their hair tied mostly in ponytails. The owner's wife stood on the bottom step of the stairs, a woollen dressing gown clutched about her. He said the robber, who was wearing a grey hooded fleece with a dark woollen scarf tied around his face, ran off in the direction of St Saviourgate. They were also clean-shaven, long-haired and wore round woollen hats. When it was cold, knee length, turned over socks and woollen jerseys were worn, whilst in the summer short sleeved shirts and Fair Isle slipovers were popular. He slept on bracken, the only concession to comfort a down quilt and a patch of woollen red plaid, often seen wrapped around him as he went about his business. Her woollen coats and cashmere dresses were technically brilliant. His face was masked by a grey scarf and dark woollen hat and he was wearing dark trousers, a dark knee-length coat and black trainers with white stripes. Show More Sentences It was used as a weigh loft, in which the woollen yarn produced by the country women's distaff and spinning-wheel was weighed out to the cap, jacket, or cloth manufacturers. She disappeared for a moment, reappearing with scratchy woollen blankets. The skirt was made of a scratchy woollen mohair beneath a satin bodice. Over the chiton, if you could afford it, a woollen cloak was worn, made from an oblong piece of cloth, usually simply draped around the body, sometimes pinned on one side. They are made of mohair and wearing costumes similar to those mill workers would have worn in the days when Trowbridge was a woollen industry town. An eagle-eyed reader claims he saw him walking near his west London home last Saturday morning, wearing a woollen greatcoat and leather moccasins, but no trousers. There are plenty of woollen blankets and fluffy white towels. It was the end of October and I was wearing a woollen swimming costume. This colourful handmade woollen wear come in green, red, ivory and black. Before moving to America he had worked in Chorley as an apprentice calico designer and learned the art of engraving at his father's business, who was a woollen manufacturer. But new inventions in the 18th century speeded up textile production and led to the growth of factories, and many of the old corn mills were converted to woollen production. Copperas was closely linked with the woollen industry because it was mainly used as a textile dye fixative, a dye darkening agent and a black dye. Now, the Clangers were a set of knitted woollen glove puppets from a Sunday afternoon TV programme, screened if my memory serves after Liberace and before I Love Lucy. They spin and colour the wool themselves, using natural dyes, and create hand-made woollen garments including some very natty jumpers based on Rothko paintings. Dull, padded beige jackets and shapeless viscose dresses will go, in favour of the sheepskin gilets and long woollen cardigans sported by the rest of the high street. I had also found a more suitable top, a black body hugging woollen skivvy. These padded garments, now known as gambesons, were made by sewing fleeces, raw wool or layers of woollen cloth between two layers of linen, felt or leather. The first wave of Asian immigrants worked for low wages in woollen mills. Even when mushing a husky dog sleigh team through the frozen deserts of Iceland she is inappropriately dressed in a thin body-hugging woollen outfit. He was wearing dark blue or black jeans, a cream woollen and a grey sports jacket, similar to a suit jacket. Show More Sentences William was already working as a woollen piecer and his younger siblings were Hannah, George, Dowell, Livewell and Diewell. And Julien needed an expert crocheter to create a series of woollen stars for one of his stunning black dresses. The woollen abolla also dated back to republican days and was fastened in the same way. I am wearing a woollen bathing costume that my mother knitted which stretched in the water and ended up below my knees. A bright red and white woollen blanket tapestry stands out among various quilts and bedcovers. Caspar was protected from the cold by a white blanket and woollen bobble hat. Lithe mountain goats and sheepherders roam the stark land, and locals make a living spinning sheep's hair into woollen carpets. Carpet beetles are notorious for the damage they do to woollen clothing, blankets, and of course, carpets. He holds a woollen trade cloth blanket, pipe with T-shaped catlinite bowl, and a beaded and quilled pipe bag. The schoolmaster himself was very thin, black and pigeon-chested under a woollen pullover. These ranged from industries connected to agriculture, such as milling and the manufacture of woollen textiles, through to mining and quarrying. The export of woollen products resulted in an economic upturn with products exported to mainland Europe. The woollen and cloth industries declined throughout the twentieth century. In the 16th and 17th centuries, the town's dominant pursuit was still agriculture and related trades, including woollen manufacture. In the last decades of the 18th century there was a great expansion of woollen production. During the Industrial Revolution the Welsh woollen industry was slow to mechanize compared to the mills of northern England. The monks were granted extensive lands for sheep grazing and were the pioneers of the woollen industry in Wales. Products from the woollen mills were taken to the coast from the quay at Trefiw using the River Conwy. The river and its tributaries powered dozens of mills, and sheep in the surrounding grassland supplied fleeces to be made into woollen products. This costume consists of a long woollen skirt, apron, white blouse, woollen shawl and a Welsh hat. Show More Sentences Starting with trade in coarse woollen fabrics, the Hanseatic League had the effect of bringing both commerce and industry to northern Germany. As trade increased, newer and finer woollen and linen fabrics, and even silks, were manufactured in northern Germany. During the high and late Middle Ages the county developed arable agriculture and woollen industries. The large drum carders do not tend to get along well with lanolin, so most commercial worsted and woollen mills wash the wool before carding. Worsted tended to adopt Arkwright water frames which could be operated by young girls, and woollen adopted the mule. It was limited to cotton mule spinners and did not affect woollen or condenser mule spinners. Again the woollen manufacturers claimed this was taking jobs from workers in Coventry. The finished product will also look rather different from the woollen yarns. The Victoria Hotel and the Midland Hotel were built to accommodate business travellers to the city during the height of the woollen trade. In medieval times Wakefield became an inland port on the Calder and centre for the woollen and tanning trades. Sedbergh's main industries for many years were farming and the production of woollen garments. South Brent was originally a woollen and market centre with two annual fairs. She was going out to buy some lengths of good woollen stuff for Louise's winter dresses. It was once known as woolsorter's disease because of its prevalence in the woollen industry. Men who could maintain carding machines and particularly woollen spinning mules were capable of working in many engineering plants. Saltaire was built in 1851 by Sir Titus Salt, a leading industrialist in the Yorkshire woollen industry. The Jersey way of life involved agriculture, milling, fishing, shipbuilding and production of woollen goods. The newcomer took off his cap and his big woollen muffler. His nose was pointed and red. Defoe entered the world of business as a general merchant, dealing at different times in hosiery, general woollen goods, and wine. He was born in Sudbury, Suffolk, the youngest son of John Gainsborough, a weaver and maker of woollen goods, and his wife, the sister of the Reverend Humphry Burroughs. Show More Sentences Marshall's Mill was one of the first of many factories constructed in Leeds from around 1790 when the most significant were woollen finishing and flax mills. The number of people who work in textiles has declined greatly, but the surviving companies produce large quantities of woollen products with little labour. Armley Mills Industrial Museum is housed in what was once the world's largest woollen mill, and includes industrial machinery and railway locomotives. The motive behind her design was thought to have been to support the Welsh flannel and woollen industry, which was under threat from imported cotton in the 19th century. One of the first tenants was Mr Eneas Walker, a former woollen manufacturer living with his son, Alfred Walker who at the age of 33 was described as a Chelsea pensioner. In the 17th century, England was famous for its woollen and worsted cloth. This was due to commercial legislation to protect the woollen industry. Of course, mothers knitted woollen balaclavas that made their favourite boys look like the Telly Tubbies, but nevertheless it was supremely effective. There is continued demand for quality Welsh woollen products. With which hand-woven woollen fabric is the Outer Hebrides associated? In the Middle Ages, the mills at Staveley produced woollen cloth. A frieze is a coarse woollen cloth that usually has a nap on one side. Salfordshire encompassed several parishes and townships, some of which, like Rochdale, were important market towns and centres of England's woollen trade. When steam power began to be used by the Yorkshire woollen industry the Severn Valley mills were at a disadvantage, since they did not have nearby supplies of coal. After the Cambrian Mills burned down in 1912 Newtown was no longer an important woollen industrial centre and many of the workers moved elsewhere. In Norman times the county developed malting and woollen industries. As of 2013 there were just nine commercial woollen mills still in operation, often run by small families producing traditional Welsh cloth on old looms. Water powered woollen mills that were open to the public as of 2016 include Melin Tregwynt, Rock Mill Llandysul, Solva Woollen Mill and Trefriw Woollen Mills. By the end of the 19th century there were woollen mills, silk manufacturers, bleachers and dyers but cotton spinning and weaving were the dominant industries in Rochdale. There are still working woollen mills at Solva and Tregwynt. Show More Sentences A major employer was Titus Salt who in 1833 took over the running of his father's woollen business specialising in fabrics combining alpaca, mohair, cotton and silk. Boots stamping, echoing on cobbles as Doors opened, curtains pulled back watching, As their breath steamed, Suits, woollen waistcoats, tweeds, well-worn, With elbows, Frayed. Examples from Classical Literature These are adapted to each other, and the orderly composition of them forms a woollen garment. King jorum was a very big man, with a very big smile, and very big woollen boots. There is a very extensive manufactory of red woollen caps at Fas, the contexture of which is well deserving investigation. The sumptuary law for burying the dead in woollen, still occupies its place in their statute book. Outside the bandages I wore six pairs of thick woollen socks, fur boots and a crampon over-shoe of soft leather. Various species of Lecanora, particularly L. tartarea, known as cudbear, are used in dyeing woollen yarn. Potassium carbonate or Carbonate of Potash is extensively used by laundresses and in the dressing of woollen cloth. She had to deal with human hearts, while Clare dealt only with woollen and linen. The chief industries are the manufacture of bed and table linen, towelling and woollen cloth, shipbuilding and flax-spinning. Being an Orthodox Jew, he naturally wore a long, black levitical coat which concealed his swinging woollen fringes. Could that winglike envelopment be her gray woollen shawl, tossed by the wind? In this exigence, the gentleman had four sheep killed forthwith, and covered the nag with a woollen garment. She scanned the woollen arabesques on the bedquilt, which the servant had given a furious shaking. Particulars of the woollen fabrics of the county of Cork received from a manufacturer. The woollen cloth was fulled or thickened by men who practised fulling as a distinct trade. The owner of this collection was a cheesemonger, who received them in a woollen nightcap, with straps buttoned under his chin. She was clad in a simple woollen gown, without lace or broidery, her only ornament a silver bracelet. He had a thick, woollen muffler round his throat and the MS. was in his hand. Every woollen filament of our garments, every hair of our heads and faces, was jewelled with a crystal globule. A coarse woollen petticoat in black and gray stripes, too short by several inches, exposed her legs. Show More Sentences Likewise, have you any woollen stockings to wear, and warm clothes generally? A few moments later he reappeared with his violin-case a heavy muffler about his neck and thick woollen gloves on his bony hands. He was of slim build and was wearing a black t-shirt and blue jeans as well as wearing woollen gloves. Riley, had been apparently occupied in a tactile examination of his woollen stockings. Connemara has been long celebrated for its hand-knit woollen stockings. He was old, and his woollen gaberdine still reeked of the stinking artemisia of the mountain passes. As we walked together up the windy street, Lena wiped her eyes with the back of her woollen glove. The woollen stuffs from Tarentum, now called Taranto, were famous. He was naked save for a linen under shirt and pair of woollen drawers. Clinging to the woodwork, staggering with the roll of the ship, and aided by the cook, I managed to slip into a rough woollen undershirt. No woollen cloth was allowed to be dyed black except with woad. Ed Rankin stepped inside and got his leather jacket and woollen muffler. No wool or woollen product might be carried from one province to another. My cousin Lysken dealeth with men and women, I with linen and woollen. They are not allowed to take out any woollen goods but for their own use. They all carried small knitted woollen jockeys on their backs with names such as Lester Hogget and Edna Ewe. It was fair to presume that being a harpooneer, his linen or woollen, as the case might be, would not be of the tidiest, certainly none of the finest. This historic village is mostly known for its traditional woollen mills and the chalybeate spa, whose iron rich waters were known to have first been used by the Romans. I took off my long woollen comforter and wound it around Yulka's throat. He had on a woollen shirt and smallclothes, under a well-worn boiled-leather tunic, and leggings bought from an old soldier, and a heavy-duty cloak. Show More Sentences She knits woollen shawls and embroiders cuffs, ruining her old eyes. Find more words! 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