Yarn

wash the wool by hand in boiling water so that it is clean yet retains the natural lanolin, which makes the wool water resistant. Then they clean and tease the wool and card it, combing it in one direction to ready it for the next step spinning into yarn. Lastly, we understand that it is also their identity and culture that is also include in those sweaters. Each Cowichan sweater is unique, incorporating designs like animals, birds, sea creatures and geometric shapes that have been passed…

grabbed me and all of my cotton friends. Then we were shipped off to Canada, and oh let me tell you about that! I had to get on an airplane. A freaking airplane! It was horrible! I was transported to Canada from the U.S by an airplane, to be made into yarn string, which is an intermediate good. We made it to our destination. We all were then derived from coal, air, water, and petroleum. Then there it was the chemical reaction, acid and alcohol. I hung my head down with a feeling of grief. Then…

go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kind of god” (Document 1). Muslims believed that traders were greedy and selfish and hurt others which was why they didn’t believe in trade, and in Document 7 it says “When cotton yarn comes once more he should not buy it alone…it should be distributed among all… [He] took it upon himself in the manner said.” Where both religions believed the characteristics of a merchant were sinful and shouldn’t be allowed into heaven.…

Dickinson’s poem “I felt a cleaving in my mind” represents the speaker’s indecisiveness to conform to traditionally women gender roles, resulting in a split crisis in this patriarchal society. Dickson illustrates images that represent how torn she is about her performance as a woman. The poem begins with the lines “I felt a cleaving in my mind/ As if my brain had split” (1-2) creating a strong image of an intensive division that the speaker feels. She continues to say “I tried to match it, seam…

A “race to the bottom” is defined as a situation in which companies compete with each other to reduce costs by paying the lowest wages and giving workers the worst conditions.” (www.dictionary.com). Most people have a negative view on the race to the bottom, but Pietra Rivoli, author of The Travels of a T-shirt in the Global Economy, takes on a more positive view of it. The race to the bottom mixed up the textile and clothing industry around the world between the late 1700s and the mid-1970s.…

The Market Revolution was a time of wrenching economic change that drew increasing numbers of people into a commercial economy based on market agriculture, early industrial production, and the sale and consumption of manufactured goods. Thomas Jefferson’s vision of America slowly disappeared. Self-sufficient farmers died out. Craftsmen and artisans who produced goods in their entirety died out. Capitalism grew: entrepreneurs and capitalists commanded large sums of money, and unskilled workers…

you've created your masterpiece, you can spray paint it black to look like an intricate scroll of wrought iron art. Bird Feeder This is a great project for the kids in your home. Poke a hole in your toilet paper tube and insert a piece of twine or yarn. Spread a thick layer of peanut butter on the tube and roll it in bird seed. Kids will love the messiness of this project, but they can also spend hours finding the perfect tree to hang their feeder. Birds will love the bird feeder too. Scary…

The people need to stories in the society because without them they had no stories to speak of. Rushdie says “Unlike a library of books, The Ocean of the Streams of Stories was much more than a storeroom of yarns, it was not dead but alive”(72). The Ocean of Streams of Stories symbolises the human brain. The streams and currents of ideas flow and derive themselves just like the human thought process. Humans brain storm from ideas, which are already incorporated…

art painted vivid images in my mind; this brought the story to life for me. I always awed at beautiful murals and graffiti that I would see painted around the town when I visited urban areas. What I did not know, was how much in-depth it was, such as yarn bombing, and sticker art. I was under the impression that graffiti was the definition of street art. Learning about the different types of street art makes me want to explore more in this area. I love taking photos, so when I go out I want to…

December 17, 2009, one cold, chilly morning. The sky seemed covered with a layer of gray yarn; the snowflakes like the thousand butterflies flies toward the windows, some naughty hitted the one side of window glass, and some danced to the other side. I stepped into a brown building and straight to the main office. After I registered, a lady with an amiable smile, who I know laterly as Mrs. White, greeted me with a zealous voice “ Welcome to Hillside Middle School, Yiwen.” My first school day…