cut up cloth
61Wealden cloth industry — Cloth making was, apart from iron making, the other large scale industry carried out on the Weald of Kent and Sussex in medieval times. The ready availability of wool from the sheep of the Romney Marsh, and the immigration from Flanders in the… …
62cut one's coat according to one's cloth — verb live according to ones means, and not more …
63cut coat according to cloth — v. buy only what you can afford, buy only what you have sufficient amount of money to pay for …
64cut from whole cloth — adj. fictitious, invented, made up; completely false; having no factual base, without foundation in fact …
65scissor off a piece of cloth — cut a piece of fabric …
66cut your coat according to your cloth — to not spend more money than you have …
67Tapa cloth — Tapa from the Lau Island Group of Fiji. Tapa cloth (or simply tapa) is a bark cloth made in the islands of the Pacific Ocean, primarily in Tonga, Samoa and Fiji, but as far afield as Niue, Cook Islands …
68Grass cloth — Grass Grass, n. [OE. gras, gres, gers, AS, gr[ae]s, g[ae]rs; akin to OFries. gres, gers, OS., D., G., Icel., & Goth. gras, Dan. gr[ae]s, Sw. gr[aum]s, and prob. to E. green, grow. Cf. {Graze}.] 1. Popularly: Herbage; the plants which constitute… …
69Grass-cloth plant — Grass Grass, n. [OE. gras, gres, gers, AS, gr[ae]s, g[ae]rs; akin to OFries. gres, gers, OS., D., G., Icel., & Goth. gras, Dan. gr[ae]s, Sw. gr[aum]s, and prob. to E. green, grow. Cf. {Graze}.] 1. Popularly: Herbage; the plants which constitute… …
70bias-cut — bīˈas cut adjective Cut on the bias • • • Main Entry: ↑bias * * * ˈbias cut 7 [bias cut] adjective (of cloth or of an item of clothing) cut across the natural direction of the lines in the cloth …
