Sentence examples for cotton rag from inspiring English sources

The warp was bast, the weft cotton rag.

I also brought in furniture polish and a cotton rag.

After five years of experiments with cotton, rag waste and flax, Mukhtarov became convinced that the best paper was made from the bark of the mulberry tree, which grows all over Samarkand.

The cotton rag paper on which it is printed was not high quality by the standards of the day, but it lasts much better than the paper that nowadays fills most printed books.

Then she dried it off and treated it with 3 in 1 from the cupboard and sat at the table working the oil into the blade with a cotton rag.

While trying to invent an anti-malarial drug in a makeshift laboratory at his family's East London home in 1856, he noticed that his formula had stained a cotton rag in a beautiful lilac or mauve hue.

They place thin cotton rags over their mouths and noses instead.

Under Cai's direction, six women, including Wu, rushed to snuff out the fire, using bundles of cotton rags.

The Germans, with little more than cotton rags to protect their noses and mouths, captured two key towns but failed to fully take advantage of the attack.

Modern newspapers, made with groundwood pulp rather than linen or cotton rags, have shorter cellulose chains to start with, and are more acidic.

Writer interviewsJohn Canning, a restorer from Glasgow, explain that all he'll need is 6500 cotton rags, 1500 gallons of water, and a mild cleaning agent similar to the stuff used on the Sistine Chapel.