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  2. Spikenard - Wikipedia

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    Spikenard. Spikenard, also called nard, nardin, and muskroot, is a class of aromatic amber-colored essential oil derived from Nardostachys jatamansi, a flowering plant in the honeysuckle family which grows in the Himalayas of Nepal, China, and India. The oil has been used over centuries as a perfume, a traditional medicine, or in religious ...

  3. Oilcloth - Wikipedia

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    Oilcloth was used as an outer waterproof layer for luggage, whether wooden trunks [3] or flexible satchels, and for carriages and weatherproof clothing. [1] The most familiar recent use was for brightly printed kitchen tablecloths. Dull-colored oilcloth was used for bedrolls, sou'westers, and tents. By the late 1950s, oilcloth became a synonym ...

  4. Oilskin - Wikipedia

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    Oilskin is a waterproof cloth used for making garments typically worn by sailors and by others in wet areas. The modern oilskin garment was developed by a New Zealander, Edward Le Roy, in 1898. Le Roy used worn-out sailcloth painted with a mixture of linseed oil and wax to produce a waterproof garment suitable to be worn on deck in foul-weather ...

  5. Clothing - Wikipedia

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    Clothing. Clothing (also known as clothes, garments, dress, apparel, or attire) is any item worn on the body. Typically, clothing is made of fabrics or textiles, but over time it has included garments made from animal skin and other thin sheets of materials and natural products found in the environment, put together.

  6. Native American fashion - Wikipedia

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    Native American fashion is the design and creation of high-fashion clothing and fashion accessories by Native Americans in the United States. This is a part of a larger movement of Indigenous fashion of the Americas . Indigenous designers frequently incorporate motifs and customary materials into their wearable artworks, providing a basis for ...

  7. Research on Inuit clothing - Wikipedia

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    Research on Inuit clothing. Inuit woman wearing parka with traditional large ruff of irregular fur; research has demonstrated the effectiveness of this style in preventing heat transfer from the face. There is a long historical tradition of research on Inuit clothing across many fields. Since Europeans first made contact with the Inuit in the ...

  8. How to Get Grease and Oil Out of Clothes - AOL

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    Baking soda is absorbent and will draw in the oil, lifting it away from the material. Just sprinkle the baking soda over the surface of the stain, and let it sit for 30 minutes. Then, shake off ...

  9. Attar - Wikipedia

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    The bottles are for aging the perfume (the skin breathes, allowing the water to evaporate while holding in the fragrance and oil, becoming a perfume, or attar.) Attar, also known as ittar, is an essential oil derived from botanical or other natural sources. Most commonly these oils are extracted via hydrodistillation or steam distillation.