Word: loom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...knitted outerwear. Two months ago, Kittay moved into women's undergarments, bought Flexees International, which makes girdles, bras and swim suits. Using prudent aggression, Kittay hopes eventually to lift B.V.D. to first place from its present fourth place in men's underwear, behind Fruit of the Loom, Cooper's and Hanes. For next to nothing else, Sol Kittay likes B.V.D. best...
Chronicles of society always run the same risk. To be successful they must contain a wealth of imaginative surface detail; otherwise the fundamental emptiness of high society--its weary monotony and mindless glitter--loom oppressively. Nilsson fails to achieve any sort of dash or verve; he also cheats us by pretending to human insights where there are none...
Much opposition and little chance of quick success loom for Saxon's major proposals, which require congressional approval. But where new department regulations alone will suffice, Saxon promises fast action. He will demand regular financial reporting by national banks in what he sees as a way to increase shareholder confidence, will allow stock option plans for bankers to attract high-caliber executives, and relax restrictions on stock dividends...
...Lurgat's most important contribution was the introduction of the numbered cartoon, a kind of full-scale plan on Bristol board that the weaver follows at the loom. Formerly weavers took considerable latitude with colors and even design, but in transferring Lurgat's fanciful designs to tapestry, they are given no margin at all. Each color area bears a number that corresponds to a number on a skein of wool, not unlike the popular "by the numbers" painting kits; the method gives Lurgat complete control over the finished product...
...takes a weaver a month to fill in one square yard of tapestry. First a set of colorless threads called the warp is strung on the loom to serve as the foundation for weaving. The other set of threads, the colored weft, is all that is visible in the finished tapestry. The weft passes over and under the warp; each time a different colored area is indicated in the cartoon, a bobbin holding a different colored thread must be used, and the ends of the different colored threads must be tied to hold the tapestry together. A tapestry is made...