Soft cloth bags protect shoes and prevent contact with clothing.
But before a cotton dress is cut and stitched it is dyed and printed; before that it is woven from yarn into cloth; before that it is spun from raw cotton into yarn.
The contenders for hapless Ed's position are all cut from the same cloth so there has never been a better time for a Scottish Democratic Labour party.
On the floor, shoved beneath a table, a large cloth boy gazes sadly into space.
Paul walked back that statement on Monday, telling a Fox News interviewer "hyperbole can get the better of anyone", but the remark gave a glimpse into what critics insist is the senator's achilles heel: a susceptibility to the charge that he is a radical, fringe candidate cut from the same cloth as his father.
For at least two centuries the handloom weavers of Bengal produced some of the world's most desirable fabrics, especially the fine muslins, light as "woven air", that were in such demand for dressmaking and so cheap that Britain's own cloth manufacturers conspired to cut off the fingers of Bengali weavers and break their looms.
In one episode from the show's later years, viewers learned that La Cuatro is expecting an inheritance from an uncle in Africa, which is eventually delivered by an "African" character sporting a cheetah-print cloth and disheveled hair held together by a large bone.
As cloth manufacture declined after the second world war, so did Manchester.
They evoke the great "cloth halls" of medieval Flanders and their architect, Alfred Waterhouse, was told to let rip, to go to "any cost reasonably required".
Even though cloth nappies actually save you money, we were badly affected by the downturn.
Water is then poured continuously over the cloth to prevent breathing, simulate drowning and induce panic.
