Don't worry, though: you're not spending all that money just on a piece of cloth with a metal fastening strip attached.

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One of the most popular tongba spots in the city is the Small Star Restaurant, located on an alley full of shops selling cloth and cotton thread, just off Thahiti Square, one block south of the tourist district, Thamel.

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The windmill was a Medieval European innovation and both wind and water mills were not just used for grinding flour but also fuilling cloth, making leather and driving bellows and trip-hammers.

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But even determined punkers don't just create a new musical vocabulary out of whole cloth.

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The manufacturer gets around this by laying down the carbon in just one direction rather than weaving carbon strands into cloth.

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He was once a soldier, later a banker and a lawyer and a cloth merchant: He can price a man's clothes just by looking at him.

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In absorption mode, the cloth can hold 340 percent of its own weight -- compared to just 18 percent without the polymer's aid -- and when it warms up, it releases the collected moisture as clean and pure potable water.

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