Spanish sheep have since been introduced into various countries, such as Saxony, Australia, Cape Colony, New Zealand; and some of the best wools now come from the Colonies.
Westring of Sweden in his Experiments on Lichens for Dyeing Wools and Silks: "The Lichens should be gathered after some days of rain, they can then be more easily detached from the rocks.
She never looked up; she stood submissive, her eyes fixed on a little basket of colored wools which hung on her arm.
Long wools are obtained from some of the best and most extensively bred animals.
Chapter XXVII Lucina in those days was occupied with some pieces of embroidery in gay wools on cloth.
Then she was gone, and Jerome went home, with the scent of lavender from her laces and silks and white wools still in his nostrils, and a subtler sweetness of womanhood and fine motherhood dimly perceived in his soul.
But before the silks and wools go to the weaving they are treated to a beauty-bath in the dye-room.
Musée de Cluny, Paris] As the early worker in wools could not forget the beauties of earth, the foreground of many Gothic tapestries is sprinkled with the loved common flowers of every day, of the field and wood.
This man had the power to select the silks and wools for the work, that they might suit his eye as to colour.
On the brown linen is embroidered in coloured wools a panoramic succession of incidents, with border top and bottom.
It is a serious matter, that of dyeing wools and silks for tapestries, and one which the directors conduct within the walls of the tapestry factory.
Dye stuffs were precious in those days, and so costly that even threads of gold and silver (which in general were supplied by the client ordering the tapestry) hardly exceeded in value certain dyed wools and silk.
None of thesewools are very salable, at remunerating prices, in the American markets.
Since the extension of the process of combing to wools of a shorter staple, the application of this wool to manufacturing purposes has undergone considerable change.
These wools even may be submitted to the action of the comb.
This exterior polish varies much in different wools, and in wools from the same breed of sheep at different times.
And that no alien by himself or another privily or openly may buy elsewhere wools or other merchandise abovesaid except at the said places, upon forfeiture of the wools or other merchandise abovesaid which he shall have so bought.
The wools being natural, and excellent colours for dyeing by this means here also natural, in all the art of clothing then we want but one only special thing.
Have not the grazers raised the price of your wools and pelts?
But them wools don't many of 'em come off the carpet.
There's them that says, 'Swape aisy and not be gettin' the wools off the carpet.
For he often matched silks and wools for Mrs. Brady, and he had been known to buy towels of the common sort.
Mr. Rector finds difference in the wools grown on the east and the west of the Cascades, and preference being given to the latter, as containing more oily or fatty matter, and hence requiring less oiling in the process of manufacturing.
Wools dyed with corrosive browns are also used in the fields and enhance the effect of designs of contrasting colours, which stand out in bold relief.
De Boots, do help to unravel these wools for me, you have such an eye for color.
The best of our British wools are inferior in fineness to any of the above-mentioned, being nearly twelve times the thickness of the finest Spanish merino; but for the ordinary purposes of the manufacturer, they are unrivalled.
The finest of all wools is that from the goat of Thibet, of which the Cashmere shawls are made.
When design has been worked break all wools except 1st.
When design has been worked break all wools except ball (M).
To obtain the same results use the wools and needles the pattern calls for and work to exact tension given.
All the deceits in Clothmaking; as the sorting together ofWools of seuerall natures, some of nature to shrink, some to hold out, which causeth cloth to cockle and lie vneuen.
But if England haue the most fine, and the most excellent Wools of the world in all respects (as it cannot bee denied, but it hath).
However, in the next reign English wool began to decline in price, owing probably to changes in fashion, but the long wools maintained their superiority and their export was forbidden by Henry VI and Elizabeth.
In the reign of James I it was confessed 'that the cloth of this kingdom hath wanted both estimation and vent in foreign parts, and that the wools are fallen from their stated values', so that export was prohibited entirely; and 13 and 14 Car.
Spanish wool, however, was considered the best from the earliest times until the Peninsular War, when the Saxon and Silesian wools deposed it from its pride of place.
The woman squats on the ground in front of the frame with her shuttles of coloured wools beside her.
Also that it had forbidden imported dyes, as these were in many instances found not to be permanent, and the wools used are coloured by local and traditional methods.
The ordinary wools are very coarse, and the fleeces dirty and full of grass seeds.
Next to soundness, there are few qualities deserving of so much attention as softness, of which the ancient writers make frequent mention, and for the prevalence of which in our present wools fashion has done not a little.
The shorter combing wools are in general used for hose, and are softer than the long combing wools.
The wools of England have always been in the highest repute, and that more abroad than at home.
This is a rather vague name that denotes a decorative kind of needlework carried out with coloured wools upon a plain white linen ground.
Wools can be obtained in various thicknesses and twistings, each good in their way.
The picture is worked in coloured wools and silks in cross stitch upon canvas, and is an admirable example of this kind of work, and this particular detail is a good illustration of a very satisfactory treatment of foliage.
It is embroidered with brightly coloured wools upon a white linen ground, and is in a good state of preservation.
Wools and silks need a case to keep them orderly and clean.
The short woolsused for clothing are about 3 to 4 inches in length.
The English and Australian wools are of several qualities.
The long wools, about 10 inches in length, are called combing wools and are used for materials which are loosely woven like serges, homespuns, and others.
The long coarse wools are used for carpets and for knitting, because they are so strong.
The long woolscome from Lincoln and Leicestershire, and the shorter from Suffolk and Shropshire.
We were surprised to find that the designs in colored wools are not embroidered upon the finished fabric, but are worked in with bits of worsted during the weaving.
The women dressed more gaily than in any other Tzendal town which we have seen; their huipíls were decorated with a mass of bright designs, worked in colored wools or silk.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wools" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
