"I like the feed-sack prints, " she says, referring to the tradition of making quilts out of cloth sacks.
She was fired even from that job because she was Korean, so afterward she worked at an Arashiyama textile shop, where she spread out dyed cloth along the riverbank to dry.
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What could be more American than Fume Blanc, a wine that was essentially made up here on our shores out of whole cloth, invented to help California differentiate itself and pull out from under the shadow of French wines, something it has long since done.
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Battlefield acupuncture was invented out of whole cloth by military doctor Richard Niemtzow, who runs an acupuncture clinic out of Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland.
While some are valid, many are questionable, if not fabricated entirely out of whole cloth.
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But even determined punkers don't just create a new musical vocabulary out of whole cloth.
In order to lure investors, Michael Katz and Christopher Fardella created resumes and marketing materials for their phony investment fund out of whole cloth.
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Marketers could start looking inward and challenge their businesses to be truly better and different, and stop volunteering to invent those qualities out of whole cloth.
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He and the firm created almost out of whole cloth the high yield bond market that financed so many cutting-edge corporate entities in the 1970s and 1980s.
How can the due process clause he cited--"nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law"--be used to create a new "right" out of whole cloth?
And although the Drudge Report has been guilty of some rumormongering, there is no evidence that Matt Drudge--or any other online journalist--has ever made up a story out of whole cloth, like The New Republics Stephen Glass.
Although the hero created himself out of the whole cloth of romantic yearning, we see almost nothing of that self-creation, only the conflicted result.
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In November, WinFlex, a wind-power company based in Kiryat Yam, Israel, received one of the most coveted prizes in the GE Ecomagination Challenge for developing a wind-turbine system that uses a light, flexible cloth sheets made out of composite materials as the rotor system for a wind turbine.
They called out opponents, other men of the cloth, for cheating and faking injury.
His wife sat down in front of him and put her hands out to touch her husband and the cloth he was wearing.
In the light of the ceiling bulb I saw my reflection, standing with a cloth over his shoulder and looking out at me as if ready to hurl himself into whatever the day might bring.
When the cloth is green, the eye sees the green silk stand out.
Before I walked out, I took a last look at her, pathetically scrubbing at her cheek with a cloth.
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