Sentence examples for wool down from inspiring English sources

Low temperatures and the extra layers of wool, down and fur they require mean high season for members of a certain unsung service trade: the coat checkers.

She pulled them on a little haphazardly, then meshed her fingers to push the wool down to the base of each finger.

Each kilim was like a musical instrument with its hundreds of strings and the girls mastered the art of tossing the wool through the machine thousands of times, looping and twisting, then pounding the wool down to tighten the weave.

Bind off and run 2 or 3 strands of wool down the middle of the coils to secure; not too tight or they will not be "springy".

There is no shortage of wool or down or Thinsulate coats that can be donated.

In its fibrous form, this plastic is good at retaining heat, so a packing of acrylonitrile fibres can be an effective substitute for wool or down in cold-weather clothing.

The BHR to Allergens domain (4 items) shows that patients with SAD react to birds and cats, while those without SAD cannot stand wool or down.

This includes polyester fleece, wool, or down.

Still, for good measure, you may want to improve that carefully chosen bed with a wool or down-filled mattress pad, perhaps one with different amounts of filling for head, feet and torso, or just a plain old European featherbed of the kind that appears in fairy tales.

I started wearing some older, vintage wool button-downs into work.

Nearly a hundred people, wrapped in down jackets and wool blankets, hunkered down at this popular overlook on the Shawangunk Ridge, about 90 miles north of New York City, throughout much of Saturday night and early this morning for what turned out to be the Leonid meteor shower of a lifetime.