Production of the material includes several stages: silk floss is spun into yarn by hand, with patterns added by hand-tying bundles of yarn before dyeing the yarn with indigo, then the silk is woven using a back-tension loom.

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The Venezuelan Jewish community traces its roots back more than 200 years and has no history of tension with the local population.

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Andy Roddick has lowered his tension gradually from 63 and 64 pounds a few years back to 55 and 56 pounds at the U.S. Open, according to Prokes, his stringer.

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The physical tension you feel that makes the hair stand up on the back of your neck.

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The tension increased in the next over when MIke Hussey was sent back by Hodge and run out at the bowler's end.

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Particularly for women raising families, there is often tension between the demands of a career and family responsibilities which can result in women stepping back from the more high profile jobs in their companies.

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But the Swiss pulled it back to 3-3 and with one end to go - all hearts in the stadium were pumping as the tension levels rose skywards.

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