• Unique mastery of the craft is passed to young girls through years of informal exposure and then formal instruction by their mother or grandmother in applying cotton thread to linen.

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  • One of the most popular tongba spots in the city is the Small Star Restaurant, located on an alley full of shops selling cloth and cotton thread, just off Thahiti Square, one block south of the tourist district, Thamel.

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  • The country used to have factories to spin cotton into thread and there were even several textile factories producing clothes, but they've all shut their doors.

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  • No wonder the rock shrink-wrapped in plastic, along patches of high-thread-count Egyptian cotton sheets underneath, to keep it from rubbing against any hard surfaces encountered didn't make the turn onto Wilshire Boulevard until the wee hours of Saturday morning, nearly eight months behind schedule.

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  • In tie-dying, bundles of ramie threads are bound tightly with cotton before dying so as to produce a geometric or floral pattern when the thread is woven into fabric using a simple back-strap loom.

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