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Old October 15th 08, 01:11 AM posted to rec.crafts.textiles.quilting
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Default OT word of the day

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!!!

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