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Dunno how long I'll keep it up, or if I will last even a week, but I
thought it might be fun to toss out a word a day and try to keep it to textile terms. They may not be new words for everybody, but hey it doesn't cost anything. (G) Today because I used the term once and puzzled people here, and because it was near the front of the dictionary: CALENDER. To smooth woollen cloths, and give them a gloss. NightMist -- Nothing has been the same since that house fell on my sister. |
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Interesting.....I wonder how that would be done?
-- Kathyl (KJ) remove "nospam" before mchsi http://community.webshots.com/user/kathylquiltz "NightMist" wrote in message ... Dunno how long I'll keep it up, or if I will last even a week, but I thought it might be fun to toss out a word a day and try to keep it to textile terms. They may not be new words for everybody, but hey it doesn't cost anything. (G) Today because I used the term once and puzzled people here, and because it was near the front of the dictionary: CALENDER. To smooth woollen cloths, and give them a gloss. NightMist -- Nothing has been the same since that house fell on my sister. |
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CALENDER. To smooth woollen cloths, and give them a gloss.
Interesting.....I wonder how that would be done? It's also the old Scots word for a wringer/mangle, which suggests how... Needn't be cloth. Paper is calendered too. Now let's hear it for... MUNGO!!! ==== j a c k at c a m p i n . m e . u k === http://www.campin.me.uk ==== Jack Campin, 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland == mob 07800 739 557 CD-ROMs and free stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, and Mac logic fonts |
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MOst of us oldsters around here know Mungo is
wendy/frood's pooch. Taria Jack Campin - bogus address wrote: Now let's hear it for... MUNGO!!! ==== j a c k at c a m p i n . m e . u k === http://www.campin.me.uk ==== Jack Campin, 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland == mob 07800 739 557 CD-ROMs and free stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, and Mac logic fonts |
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I love it! Keep on kicking out those great textile words..... or any
great words. I'm huge on entertainment, play and fun right now. And I'm trying to figure out what a machine would look like that would calender wool. Is that how the word is used? as a verb??? I love it. Sunny |
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On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:54:55 -0700 (PDT), Sunny
wrote: I love it! Keep on kicking out those great textile words..... or any great words. I'm huge on entertainment, play and fun right now. And I'm trying to figure out what a machine would look like that would calender wool. Is that how the word is used? as a verb??? I love it. Verb or adverb I believe, to calender, or calendered. With wool at least upon a time the machine that did it was indeed very similar to a mangle (wringer here in the US). Big metal rollers that were heated, and the cloth was rolled through. Sort of very intensive pressing. NightMist -- Nothing has been the same since that house fell on my sister. |
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Tenter: As a noun it is a framework for stretching fabric. Refers to what you would use for yardage more often than to anything akin to an embroidery hoop. As a verb it is the action of stretching the fabric on the tenter. To Retenter, is to take a fabric and stretch it to pull the grain straight. Like when you buy a few yards of a stripey fabric only to find that the bit inside the bolt was all wonky, so you wash it and pin it damp to the curtain rod with a weighted broomstick whipped to the bottom in hopes of pulling it straight. Sadly, these days when most fabrics are printed instead of dyed it doesn't work as well as it did back when. Yes, it is where the reference "tenterhooks" comes from. NightMist -- Nothing has been the same since that house fell on my sister. |
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i think the machine would look like my QI Hanah... who smooths just about
everything (especially cloth and wood and plastic) with a great big wide tongue kiss. Leaving them all smooth with glossy slobbery shine. well at least the ones she doesn't chew up are smooth... http://kjbeanne.files.wordpress.com/...eek-3-025s.jpg Hanah going incognito... -- Kellie J. Berger *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* www.kjbeanne.com www.kjbeanne.com/kellie.htm "Sunny" wrote in message ... I love it! Keep on kicking out those great textile words..... or any great words. I'm huge on entertainment, play and fun right now. And I'm trying to figure out what a machine would look like that would calender wool. Is that how the word is used? as a verb??? I love it. Sunny |
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Kellie!!!! That photo needed a PIMP warning!!!!! Now get over here and do
my laundry!!!! BG What a living doll that one is!!!!! Thanks for the laugh, Dreamweaver, with a lap full of sleeping Yorkie and a laptop! "Kellie J Berger" wrote in message ... i think the machine would look like my QI Hanah... who smooths just about everything (especially cloth and wood and plastic) with a great big wide tongue kiss. Leaving them all smooth with glossy slobbery shine. well at least the ones she doesn't chew up are smooth... http://kjbeanne.files.wordpress.com/...eek-3-025s.jpg Hanah going incognito... -- Kellie J. Berger *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* www.kjbeanne.com www.kjbeanne.com/kellie.htm "Sunny" wrote in message ... I love it! Keep on kicking out those great textile words..... or any great words. I'm huge on entertainment, play and fun right now. And I'm trying to figure out what a machine would look like that would calender wool. Is that how the word is used? as a verb??? I love it. Sunny |
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Ringspun or Ring Spun A spinning process that takes the fiber through the roving, twisting, and winding stages, in a single unbroken procedure. It produces a finer thread than most other spinning processes. -- Nothing has been the same since that house fell on my sister. |
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