The fabricator achieves extra thickness by bonding addition strips of material around the counter-top's edges.
Next to emerge are some glittery strips of material bejewelled with sequins that wouldn't look out of place on an episode of Strictly Come Dancing.
In a society that already puts too many arbitrary divisions between people, why create another by making our kids wear different-coloured strips of material?
Mr. Day said crews have suspended hundreds of strips of material containing a harmless live organism -- Bacillus subtilis -- as proxies for the elusive spores and a measure of the effectiveness of the fumigation.
Rugs were made by the colonists in a variety of techniques: knitting; crocheting; braiding strips of material and then sewing the plaits together, either in blocks or in a spiral; and embroidering on a coarse-woven foundation.
Hooking (drawing strips of material through a woven foundation) began around the turn of the 18th century and became very popular; early examples have floral, geometric, or animal designs and are very colourful.
Single, or one-ply, yarns are single strands composed of fibres held together by at least a small amount of twist; or of filaments grouped together either with or without twist; or of narrow strips of material; or of single man-made filaments extruded in sufficient thickness for use alone as yarn (monofilaments).
A zipper consists of two strips of material with metal or plastic teeth along the edges and with a sliding piece that draws the teeth into interlocking position when moved in one direction and separates them again when moved in the opposite direction.
At its centre is a Narnia-esque salon privée encircled by floor-length strips of material that my wife identified as the fringing on a Shirley Bassey dress (and the minute you walk into that bit of the joint, at £200 the sitting, an even bigger spender you will be).
The coats and knits, made by piecing together strips of material in a pattern, showed off Fendi's craftsmanship, but it was Mr. Lagerfeld's alert, chaotic mix -- here a sleek black fur coat over zingy stripes, there a glitter of gold chain nestled in a glam-white mink -- that gave the clothes their knowing edge.
