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Fleece Records
Fleece may refer to: Materials * Fleeces, woollen coats of a domestic sheep or long-haired goat, especially after being shorn * Polar fleece, a type of polyester fabric ** Fleece jacket, a lightweight casual jacket * Horticultural fleece, a polypropylene fabric used to protect plants See also * Golden Fleece (other) * Fleece Hotel, Gloucester, England * The Fleece Inn, Worcestershire, England * Flyssa The flyssa is a traditional edged weapon of Algeria produced and used during the 19th century and earlier. It originates from the Kabyle Iflissen Lebhar tribal confederacy. Characteristics These weapons have blades of various sizes from , and ..., a traditional weapon of the Berbers * Fleece (band), a Canadian indie rock band {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fleeces
Wool is the textile fibre obtained from sheep and other mammal, mammals, especially goat, goats, rabbit, rabbits, and camelid, camelids. The term may also refer to inorganic materials, such as mineral wool and glass wool, that have properties similar to animal wool. As an animal fibre, wool consists of protein together with a small percentage of lipids. This makes it chemically quite distinct from cotton and other plant fibres, which are mainly cellulose. Characteristics Wool is produced by Hair follicle, follicles which are small cells located in the skin. These follicles are located in the upper layer of the skin called the epidermis and push down into the second skin layer called the dermis as the wool fibers grow. Follicles can be classed as either primary or secondary follicles. Primary follicles produce three types of fiber: Kemp (wool), kemp, medullated fibers, and true wool fibers. Secondary follicles only produce true wool fibers. Medullated fibers share nearly ident ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polar Fleece
Polar fleece is a soft napped insulating fabric made from polyester. Uses Polar fleece is used in jackets, hats, sweaters, sweatpants, cloth diapers (nappies), gym clothes, hoodies, pajamas, blankets, and high-performance outdoor clothing. The produced fleece can be used to create clothes that are very light, soft, and easy to wash. Polar fleece can stretch more easily in one direction than in others. History Polar fleece originated in Massachusetts in 1979 when Malden Mills (now Polartec LLC), and Patagonia developed Synchilla (synthetic chinchilla). It was a new, light, strong pile fabric meant to mimic, and in some ways surpass, wool. Malden Mills CEO Aaron Feuerstein intentionally declined to patent polar fleece, allowing the material to be produced cheaply and widely by many vendors, leading to the material's quick and wide acceptance. Malden Mills registered PolarFleece as a trademark with the United States Patent and Trademark Office on October 6, 1981. Characteri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fleece Jacket
A fleece jacket (or simply a fleece) is a lightweight casual jacket made of a polyester synthetic wool such as polar fleece. A fleece jacket will typically have a zipper up the middle, rather than buttons or other fasteners. It will provide thermal insulation but is not normally weatherproof and so it will not effectively keep out wind and rain. History Polar fleece originated in Massachusetts in 1979 when Malden Mills, (now Polartec LLC), and Patagonia developed Synchilla (synthetic chinchilla). It was a new, light, strong pile fabric meant to mimic—and in some ways surpass—wool. Company CEO Aaron Feuerstein intentionally declined to patent A patent is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an enabling disclosure of the invention."A ... Polar fleece, allowing the material to be produced cheaply and widely by many ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horticultural Fleece
Horticultural fleece is a thin, nonwoven, polypropylene fabric which is used as a floating mulch to protect both late and early crops and delicate plants from cold weather and frost, as well as insect pests during the normal growing season. It admits light, air and rain but creates a microclimate around the developing plants, allowing them to grow faster than the unprotected crops. British website page ''Using horticultural fleece on early crops'' (Archived) Methods of use Available in rolls of various widths, the fleece is laid across sown seedbeds or on the top of juvenile plants.[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golden Fleece (other)
The Golden Fleece is an element of Greek mythology. Golden Fleece may also refer to: * ''Golden Fleece'' (clipper), an 1855 California clipper that caught fire with a cargo of ice * Golden Fleece (horse), an Irish racehorse * ''The Golden Fleece'' (painting), an 1894 painting by Tom Roberts * Golden Fleece, Queensland, a locality in the North Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia *Golden Fleece Award, a dubious recognition in American politics * ''Golden Fleece Award'', an Irish arts and crafts award established by Lillias Mitchell *Golden Fleece Company, a defunct Australian retail fuel chain *Golden Fleece Inn, York, an inn in England, UK * Golden Fleece Ltd., a New York-based arts organization *Golden Fleece Mine (Colorado), a gold mine in Hinsdale County, Colorado, US *Golden Fleece Mining and Milling Company (Iowa) * Goldenfleece or ''Ericameria arborescens'', a species of plant *Operation Golden Fleece, a 1993 non-combatant evacuation operation of the Hellenic Navy in Georgia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fleece Hotel
The Fleece Hotel, Westgate Street, Gloucester is a timber framed building dating from the 15th century, which incorporated a 12th-century stone undercroft. The building is part grade I and part grade II listed with Historic England. History left, The 12th century undercroft of the Hotel The Fleece Hotel was first opened in 1497 as one of the three major inns of Gloucester to house pilgrims visiting the tomb of Edward II of England. The 12th century undercroft, known as the "Monk's Retreat" was originally part of a merchant's house, and was incorporated into the structure. By 1455, it was a property owned by Gloucester Abbey, and was developed into an inn by the Abbey during the 16th century. It was first recorded as the Golden Fleece Inn in 1673. The building was made part Grade I listed on 24 January 1952, with other parts of the building made Grade II listed on 15 December 1998. After the building was left empty for around nine years, the hotel was purchased by Gloucester C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Fleece Inn
The Fleece Inn is a pub in Bretforton, in the Vale of Evesham, Worcestershire, England: the half-timbered building, over six hundred years old, has been a pub since 1848, and is now owned by the National Trust. The inn was extensively damaged by fire on 27 February 2004, and after repairs and rebuilding were completed the Fleece officially reopened on 18 June 2005. The pub holds an annual asparagus festival and auction while there are three morris sides based at the pub: Pebworth, Belle d'Vain and Asum Gras. There is a regular folk night plus concerts and weddings in the medieval barn. History Owned by the National Trust, The Fleece Inn was originally built in the early 15th century as a longhouse (an early type of farmhouse accommodating both livestock and humans) by a prosperous yeoman farmer called Byrd. It later became a pub, which was rebuilt in the 17th century and remained in the Byrd family until 1977, when Lola Taplin bequeathed it to the National Trust. Lola was a di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flyssa
The flyssa is a traditional edged weapon of Algeria produced and used during the 19th century and earlier. It originates from the Kabyle Iflissen Lebhar tribal confederacy. Characteristics These weapons have blades of various sizes from , and can be classed as varying between long knives and full-sized swords. Whatever their size, flyssas are characterized by narrow, straight-backed, single-edged blades, which come to an acute point. The blades of sword-sized flyssas often widen gradually around the point of percussion, which enhances their cutting ability. The blades are often decorated with chiselled patterns, which are sometimes inlaid. The hilt has no guard and the junction between blade and hilt is made by a metal bolster. The distal part of the hilt is almost always of wood covered with brass, usually decorated with repoussé and chasing, and has a characteristic downturned projection forming the snout of a stylised animal head at the 'pommel' end (though the pommel and g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
