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MetaQuizziks MeetingsTopic: Fabrics
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Name the painter and the painting.
The painting takes its name from a light, cotton fabric exported from India.
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The Red Madras Headress or Madras Rouge by Henri Matisse
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This book is bound in a fabric that is made of wool that had not been dyed. It later came to denote a colour. Interestingly, this word X and another word Y, meaning ‘unbleached’, were both used for the same shade of colour till the 1930s. X and Y?
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Beige & Ecru
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This English term for a coarse fabric made either out of jute or hemp comes from the Sanskrit for ‘sack’. What word?
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Gunny from goni
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Which fabric was a rough cloth traditionally made from camel's-hair, goat-hair or hemp? It is now a term signifying penitence, from a Judaic practice relayed to the English language via The Bible.
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Sack-cloth (and ashes)
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Calico (cat & crab)
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What are such patterns, common in the natural world, called?
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Moire
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Identify him, what is the style of shirts that he popularized called and what fabric is used to make these traditional shirts?
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Ramon Magsaysay, Barong shirts, made of piña – fibre made from pineapple leaves
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Muslin, whose name is derived from either Machilipatanam or Mosul
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Valenki is traditional Russian winter footwear. Valenki means 'made using ____', referring to the fabric used to manufacture these shoes. What?
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Felt
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Connect this album cover to the German word for cotton.
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Medieval Europeans believed that cotton came from a strange plant of India where lambs grew on plants – a concept known as 'Vegetable Lamb of Tartary'. The German word for cotton – baumwolle meaning 'tree wool' stems from this belief.