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Houndstooth is a pattern of alternating light and dark checks used on fabric. It is also known as hounds tooth check, hound's tooth (and similar spellings), dogstooth, dogtooth or dog's tooth. The duotone pattern is characterized by a tessellation of light and dark solid checks alternating with light-and-dark diagonally-striped checks—similar ...
Cynoglossum. Species: C. officinale. Binomial name. Cynoglossum officinale. L. Flowers and leaves. Cynoglossum officinale[1][2] (houndstongue, houndstooth, dog's tongue, gypsy flower, and rats and mice due to its smell) is a herbaceous plant of the family Boraginaceae.
The Gerum Cloak is a nearly intact brown wool cloak dating from 360 – 100 BC that was found in a peat bog on Gerumsberget plateau, Vastra Gotaland, Sweden in 1920. [1] The cloak is oval shaped and has a few small holes in it, mainly around the bottom edge. The biggest of these holes was made by Johan Fredrik Klasson with his shovel when he ...
The suit is a traditional form of men's formal clothes in the Western world. For some four hundred years, suits of matching coat, trousers, and waistcoat have been in and out of fashion. The modern lounge suit's derivation is visible in the outline of the brightly coloured, elaborately crafted royal court dress of the 17th century (suit, wig ...
Border tartan, sometimes known as Borders tartan, Northumbrian tartan, Northumberland tartan, shepherds' plaid, shepherds' check, Border drab, or Border check, is a design used in woven fabrics historically associated with the Anglo-Scottish Border, particularly with the Scottish Borders and Northumberland. Possibly the most identifiable Border ...
The Palestinian version of the keffiyeh. The Palestinian keffiyeh is a distinctly patterned black-and-white keffiyeh. White keffiyehs had been traditionally worn by Palestinian peasants and bedouins to protect from the sun, when Palestine was part of the Ottoman Empire. Its use as a symbol of Palestinian nationalism and resistance dates back to the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine, which ...
Hericium erinaceus, commonly known as lion's mane mushroom, yamabushitake, bearded tooth fungus, or bearded hedgehog, [1] is an edible mushroom belonging to the tooth fungus group. [2] Native to North America, Europe, and Asia, it can be identified by its long spines (longer than 1 centimetre or ⁄ inch), occurrence on hardwoods, and tendency ...
The Inverness cape is a form of weatherproof outer-coat. It is notable for being sleeveless, the arms emerging from armscyes beneath a cape (the sleeved version is an Inverness coat; the shorter-caped, sleeved version is an Ulster coat). The Inverness cape is a water-repellent garment. The extra layer of cloth at the shoulders traditionally ...