The build is wonderful, and the leather cushions on the cups changes to a cloth material on the part that rests on your skin.

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The southern states, virtually devoid of non-slave labour, relied on the people flocking to the mills of Lancashire to turn their fleecy raw material into finished cloth.

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In the dress-making department and shop, new cloth-ing (using also Tanzanian material) is produced and sold, and second-hand clothing is mended and refashioned.

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Haofei Shi, the report's lead author, said the material "acts as a perfect black cloth that can completely conceal the 3D structure of the object".

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In the Middle Ages it was discovered to be a rich source of aluminium sulphate - a crucial raw material used as a fixing agent in dyeing cloth.

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