Less expensive cloth paintings (tüchlein) were more common in middle-class households, and records show a strong interest in domestically owned religious panel paintings.
Women of lower classes often made their own corsets from less-expensive cloth, using reeds for support and reinforcement.
It also means you don't need to finish the edges of the cloth (less sewing - hurrah).
Mr. McLaren, who died last month at 64, spearheaded punk music and style in London in the 1970s by cutting the Sex Pistols, jaggedly, more or less from whole cloth and by operating, with Vivienne Westwood, the boutique Sex, which offered the lifestyle to go — when the store could be bothered to open, anyway.
As serious riders, Lance and I are cut more or less from the same cloth.
They can be less convenient, like toting cloth sacks or canteens rather than plastic bags or bottled water.
Which brings us to the novel's third narrator, who is, at the outset at least, a Christian; a man of the cloth, no less.
Michigan native Clem Sohn was the first to make that round-trip on a regular basis, dropping from a plane at air shows beginning in the early '30s, and although he was dead in less than a decade his cloth wing-suit, fashioned on his mother's sewing machine, inspired the garb now used by hundreds of recreational birdmen worldwide.
She argued, for example, that the story of Eddy having "fits" as a child to get her own way, or rather the way McClure's described them, was "invented more or less out of whole cloth" by McClure's journalist Burton Hendrick, and that the accounts of her as "hysterical" were misogynist.
