The nation's obsession with its lost prewar status wore like a heavy, damp wool shirt on the youth.
Though the day had been warm, the evening was nippy, and the staff had wisely draped faux-wool wraps on furniture near the patio.
The men then construct the carpet loom - a horizontal frame placed on the ground - while the women convert the wool into yarn on spinning wheels.
Rings of wool were observed on fields where sheep carcasses had lain.
If sellers of wool start running low on inventory early in the morning because they are flooded with buyers, you can expect them to raise their prices by noon.
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Once on board the wool will be pressed to recover the oil and then reused.
The furnishings, though, looked much the same the modern taste of twenty years ago, boxy and stuffed, bare wood and monochrome wool, coffee tables of thick glass on cruciform legs of stainless steel, all mixed with Orientals and family antiques.
Now, 3, 000-year-old ivory artifacts recovered by Mallowan between 1949 and 1963 from the ancient city of Nimrud, in what is now Iraq, and likely cleaned by his famous wife using cotton wool buds and face cream, go on display Monday at the British Museum in London.
The room was uncluttered, considering how small it was, but everything in it was striking and eccentric: the faded rugs, the pictures on the walls, a wool blanket woven in bright colors flung over the back of the sofa, collections of stones and twisted weathered deadwood from the moors.
"Wool" was the most favorably reviewed book on Amazon in 2012, with an average rating of 4.8 out of five stars.
The sight of those airy florals and lightweight colorful leather bomber jackets makes it hard to go back into the closet and pile on the same old layers of wool we have been wearing since last Fall.
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On top of that is a thick wool sock, winter boots that are three sizes to large for me, and a waterproof overboot.
Leicester Civic Society's chair, Stuart Bailey, said the building on the Grand Union Canal, where wool was spun from the latter half of the 19th Century, was an important reminder of Leicester's heritage.
In addition to natural fibers like cotton, silk and wool, there are now a wide variety of synthetics on the shelves.
The celebrations begin on Thursday, when edgy and inventive comedians Glen Wool and Jarred Christmas perform at the Castle Gardens.
They sleep together and Silva takes the monkey to the center each day on her bicycle, the baby snug in the wool bag.
The company has never made a secret of the fact that 10% of its wool blend comes from overseas, and that the leather straps on the beret are made in Pakistan.
And it may not be wise to follow the example of the man in the wool Union Jack cap who crashed Simpson's victory interview on NBC and cooed what sounded like a lonely seagull call.
Paddle steamers brought wool from Toorale and other stations to town, where it was loaded on daily trains to Sydney then shipped to London.
Francisco Costa said that he too was inspired by Russia, but his was more on the military side with belted jackets with squared shoulders worn with wool or leather skirts.
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"Wool" now has more than 12, 500 ratings and around 2, 200 reviews on Goodreads.
In the end, the Democrats have a good chance of prevailing on election day: it is hard to see dyed-in-the-wool Democrats opting for Mr Bush once alone in the voting booth.
Aluminum foil as wrinkle remover: To get wrinkles out of silk, wool, and rayon clothes that can't take direct heat, place a piece of foil on your ironing board, then lay the garment flat over it.
Wolfowitz sat down next to a slight middle-aged man in a fraying denim jacket and a black wool cap, who said that his name was Bedir Yasa and that until recently he had been living on the streets.
The female models, with fluffy curled hair and bright red lips, looked like they were ready to get on an airline flight to mix a little business with pleasure, while the men in plaid wool blazers could have been running off to a campus club meeting.
Nubby, shiny material familiar to varsity athletes surprisingly made sense on a coat that was paired with a goatskin collar shawl, lace-inset blouse and stretch-wool seamed pants.
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