Word: fabric
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...material together and tying it tightly in variations of five basic shapes, known as rosettes, bunches, gathers, pleats and marblings. String or dental floss can be used to tie it, but elastic is best, as it is not permeated by the dye and can be easily snipped free. The fabric is then immersed in the simmering (not boiling) dye solution and kept there for a length of time that varies with the material; cotton, for instance, soaks up the dye slowly, while silk takes it quickly. Next, the fabric is rinsed in cold water. The process can be repeated...
Burlington Industries, sensing a developing market, has included four different tie-dye designs in its fabrics this year, and is mass-producing them. Tie-dye prints are showing up in the fabric centers and even in the hosiery salons of large department stores. Whether they come off the kitchen stove, a rack in a chic boutique or an industrial loom, the bright surprises and flowery amoebae of tie-dyed clothes, cushions and wall coverings will be part of the pattern...
...facility. which is very similar to Harvard's at the end of 1968. Winds pulled up some of the anchors though. so the bubble had to be deflated. After it was blown up again, a heavy wind blew in from the Harlem River and collapsed the bubble. The fabric was torn by support poles...
Snow buried what was left of the structure, and after the snow melted. the manufacturer took the fabric back to its plant in Delaware to repair...
...does not seem even to be groping for a sense of national or corporate repentance or change of mind and heart; and yet the idea of national or corporate repentance is almost uniquely ours as Christians and Jews because of the prophetic conception of religion woven into the basic fabric of scripture. Accordingly, there have been many religious leaders in our country in both the liberal and conservative tradition who have long cried aloud with Amos "that for three transgressions and for four" we may be doomed to ever more grievous turmoil within our nation and abroad...