"Duffel bag A duffel bag, duffle bag, kit bag or gym bag is a large cylindrical bag made of cloth (or other fabric), historically with a top closure using a drawstring. Generally a duffel bag is used for travel, sports and recreation, fitness centre, hunting, and business. The name comes from Duffel, a town in Flanders, Belgium, where the thick cloth used to make the bag originated in the 17th century. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word dates back to 1677, used to describe ‘a coarse woollen cloth having a thick nap or frieze’. More recently, a ""duffel"
"to its durability against wind and the elements. The wood of this coniferous tree has a high resin content extremely resistant to moisture fluctuations. Because the wood is untreated, it gets a satin finish and ages naturally to a silver surface. Guirlande Antwerpen The Guirlande Antwerpen [ɡiʁ.lɑd] (Dutch for ""Garland of Antwerp"") is a sculpture located on the storefront of an antique shop in Antwerp's antique district. It is at Kloosterstraat 81 in the St. Andries quarter. The sculpture was commissioned by Tony Bogaert, one of the first antique dealers of Kloosterstraat. The sculpture was designed and made by the"
"Jordaens, the two Teniers and many others. Informally, most Antverpians (in Dutch ""Antwerpenaren"", people from Antwerp) daily speak Antverpian (in Dutch ""Antwerps""), a dialect that Dutch-speakers know as distinctive from other Brabantic dialects through its typical vowel pronunciations: approximating the vowel sound in 'bore' – for one of its long 'a'-sounds while other short 'a's are very sharp like the vowel sound in 'hat'. The ""Echt Antwaarps Teater"" (""Authentic Antverpian Theatre"") brings the dialect on stage. Antwerp is a rising fashion city, and has produced designers such as the Antwerp Six. The city has a cult status in the fashion"
"is called Akzo Nobel. Textile industry flourished in Boekelo: The ""N.V. Boekelosche Stoombleekerij"" (public LLC Boekelo's Steam-bleachery), founded in 1888 by Gerrit Jan van Heek, was taken over by Unilever (who fused it with ""P. Fenter van Vlissingen & Co's Katoenfabrieken N.V.""). On the former factory's terrain, a new quarter called ""De Bleekerij"" (The Bleachery) was built. Parts of the old industrial heritage such as old facades and the factory's chimney were integrated into the new buildings. The internationally known beer brewery Grolsch moved to Boekelo, abandoning its factories in Groenlo and Enschede. The ""Museum Buurtspoorweg"" (lit. Museum Neighborhood-railway) runs"
"the district as within a six-mile radius of Batley Town Hall, but this has now been extended to an eighteen-mile radius. Heavy Woollen District The Heavy Woollen District is named from the heavyweight cloth manufactured in the area in West Yorkshire, England. Dewsbury, Batley, Heckmondwike and Ossett are at the core of the area while Liversedge, Gomersal, Gildersome, Birkenshaw, Mirfield, Cleckheaton, Morley, Tingley, East Ardsley, Birstall and Horbury are peripheral. The manufacture of wool cloth for clothing, blankets, rope and twine is ongoing in the district by companies such as E. Simms/Heavy Woollen Textiles. Most of the district is in"
"Kersey (cloth) Kersey is a kind of coarse woollen cloth that was an important component of the textile trade in Medieval England. It derives its name from kersey yarn and ultimately from the village of Kersey, Suffolk, having presumably originated in that region. However the cloth was made in many places. It was being woven as early as 1262 in Andover, Hampshire, where regulations prohibited the inclusion of Spanish wool in kerseys. By 1475, the West Riding of Yorkshire including Calderdale was also a major producer, while Devon and Somerset were major producers and exporters until the manufacture later moved"
"this material, still going on in the nearby city of Hengelo. In Markelo, prehistoric mounds ""tumuli"", containing graves have been excavated. Hof van Twente is situated in the heart of the province Overijssel: south-west of Almelo, north-east of the Achterhoek region (Prov. Gelderland) and south-east of Rijssen-Holten. The small cities of Goor and Delden have some important industry (cement, metallics, plastics). Goor has a small harbour along the Twente Canal (Zutphen - Enschede).Permess International is one of the world's leading producers of high quality interlinings offering a complete range of products for the textile and allied industries. The motorway A35"
"Worsted Worsted ( or ) is a high-quality type of wool yarn, the fabric made from this yarn, and a yarn weight category. The name derives from Worstead, a village in the English county of Norfolk. That village, together with North Walsham and Aylsham, formed a manufacturing centre for yarn and cloth in the 12th century, when pasture enclosure and liming rendered the East Anglian soil too rich for the older agrarian sheep breeds. In the same period, many weavers from Flanders moved to Norfolk. ""Worsted"" yarns/fabrics are distinct from woollens (though both are made from sheep's wool): the former"
"Chantilly lace Chantilly lace is a handmade bobbin lace named after the city of Chantilly, France, in a tradition dating from the 17th century. The famous silk laces were introduced in the 18th century. Though called ""Chantilly lace"", most of the lace bearing this name was actually made in Bayeux in France and Geraardsbergen, now in Belgium. Chantilly lace is known for its fine ground, outlined pattern, and abundant detail. The pattern is outlined in ""cordonnet"", a flat untwisted strand. The best Chantilly laces were made of silk, and were generally black, which made them suitable for mourning wear. White"
"Heavy Woollen District The Heavy Woollen District is named from the heavyweight cloth manufactured in the area in West Yorkshire, England. Dewsbury, Batley, Heckmondwike and Ossett are at the core of the area while Liversedge, Gomersal, Gildersome, Birkenshaw, Mirfield, Cleckheaton, Morley, Tingley, East Ardsley, Birstall and Horbury are peripheral. The manufacture of wool cloth for clothing, blankets, rope and twine is ongoing in the district by companies such as E. Simms/Heavy Woollen Textiles. Most of the district is in Kirklees, Ossett and Horbury are in Wakefield and Morley is in Leeds. The area was one of the key textile centres"
"Halifax, West Yorkshire Halifax ( ) is a minster town in the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale in West Yorkshire, England. The town has been a centre of woollen manufacture from the 15th century onward, originally dealing through the Piece Hall. Halifax is known for Mackintosh's chocolate and toffee products including Rolo and Quality Street. The Halifax Bank was also founded and is still headquartered in Halifax. Dean Clough, one of the largest textile factories in the world at more than long, was in the north of the town. The premises have since been converted for office and retail use including"
"as Bolleke, an amber beer from the De Koninck Brewery. The Mokatine sweets made by Confiserie Roodthooft, Elixir D'Anvers, a locally made liquor, locally roasted coffee from Koffie Verheyen, sugar from Candico, Poolster pickled herring and Equinox horse meat, are other examples of local specialities. One of the most known products of the city are its biscuits, the ""Antwerpse Handjes"", literally ""Antwerp Hands"". Usually made from a short pastry with almonds or milk chocolate, they symbolize the Antwerp trademark and folklore. The local products are represented by a non-profit organization, Streekproducten Provincie Antwerpen vzw. A number of Christian missions to"
"Worstead, Norfolk, the village which gave its name to the cloth, the village church built by local weavers in the fourteenth-century towers over the small community, its tower jutting strikingly above the landscape. In other East Anglian communities, the wealth from wool poured in: Wymondham, Diss, North Walsham, East Harling, Attleborough, Aylsham. The churches basked in the refracted glory of wool wealth. Even in Norwich, which boasts more medieval churches than anywhere in Europe, it was wool money that got the stone lifted, the glass stained and the panels carved. Norfolk wool was best suited to heavier cloth, and so"
"Hoboken, Antwerp Hoboken () is a southern district of the arrondissement and city of Antwerp, in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is located at the Scheldt river. The name of the district has its origins in Middle Dutch. The name Hoboken is derived from Medieval Dutch ""Hooghe Buechen"" or ""Hoge Beuken"", meaning ""High"" or ""Tall Beeches"". To this day there is a hospital in Hoboken named ""Hoge Beuken"". A local children's story says that the name ""Hoboken"" is derived from a little boy who accidentally dropped his sandwich in the Schelde river, which flows near Hoboken. In the local"
"in the Antwerp suburb of Hoboken, and a commemorative plaque in front of the Antwerp Cathedral donated by Toyota, that was later replaced by a marble statue of the two characters covered by a cobblestone blanket, created by the artist Batist Vermeulen. In 19th century Belgium, a boy named Nello becomes an orphan at the age of two when his mother dies in the Ardennes. His grandfather Jehann Daas, who lives in a small village near the city of Antwerp, takes him in. One day, Nello and Jehann Daas find a dog who was almost beaten to death, and name"
"named after King Arthur's knight Gawain. Pollokshaws and Thornliebank are the nearest ancient villages and were created mainly because of the textile industry. Manufacturing and printing of cloth were the main industries and formed the livelihoods of many of the villagers. Several immigrants came to the area to work in the industry: Irish linen workers, as well as Dutch workers specialized in beetling (a form of transfer printing). Adjoining Arden, the houses in Carnwadric are older and sturdier and have needed refurbishment also the same as other post war housing ""schemes"". Adjoining the exterior of the former Sir Alexander Crum's"
"spanned by Hanging Bridge, the main route in and out of the town. The name may derive from ""hangan"" meaning hollow, although there is an alternative derivation from the Old English ""hen"", meaning wild birds, and the Welsh ""gan"", meaning between two hills. It dates to at least 1343 but may be even older. In the 14th century Manchester became home to a community of Flemish weavers, who settled in the town to produce wool and linen. This in part helped to develop a tradition of cloth production in the region, which in turn sparked the growth of the city"
"by Ypres and eventually Bruges would become the centres of the wool industry and trade. However, by the 14th century Arras still was renowned and drew considerable wealth from the cloth and wool industry, and was particularly well known for its production of fine tapestries—so much so that in English and Italian the word ""Arras"" (""Arazzi"" in Italian) was adopted to refer to tapestries in general. The patronage of wealthy cloth merchants ensured that the town became an important cultural center, with major figures such as the poet Jean Bodel and the trouvère Adam de la Halle making their homes"
"Helmond Helmond (; called ""Héllemond"" in the local dialect) is a municipality and a city in the Metropoolregio Eindhoven of the province of North Brabant in the southern Netherlands. Helmond has many textile companies. The ""Vlisco"" factory is located next to the Zuid-Willemsvaart canal which runs through the city. The name 'Helmond' can be traced back to a combination of ""Hel"", which means ""low-lying"" (from Proto-Germanic ""*haljæ"" / contemporary Hel), and ""Mond"", which would refer to a higher ground, secure place. The name has nothing to do with the contemporary literal translation of Hell Mouth. In 1241 a first coat"
"Lange Wapper Lange Wapper is a Flemish folkloric character. He is a legendary giant and trickster whose folk tales were told especially in the city of Antwerp and its neighbouring towns, but similar tales are also prominent in other Flemish cities. The legend started in the 16th century in Wilrijk. A farmer found an enormous garden parsley and a red cabbage in his bed. When he touched the vegetables, they turned into a cute baby. As he was unable to take care for the child it was adopted by a family living in Antwerp. Many years later the boy helped"
"in Normandy, mainly around the Bayeux area. While it was no longer being made in Chantilly, all of the old techniques and designs were used. Chantilly lace reached the height of its popularity around 1830 and was revived again in the 1860s, at which point it was made at Bayeux as well as at Geraardsbergen, in Belgium. In 1844, a machine was patented that made Valenciennes lace and black silk Chantilly lace that was difficult to distinguish from the handmade lace. Chantilly lace Chantilly lace is a handmade bobbin lace named after the city of Chantilly, France, in a tradition"
"Aartselaar Aartselaar (, old spelling: ""Aertselaer"") is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Antwerp. The municipality only comprises the town of Aartselaar proper. On January 1, 2006 Aartselaar had a total population of 14,375. The total area is 10.93 km² which gives a population density of 1,316 inhabitants per km². The municipality of Aartselaar is located in the southern outskirts of Antwerp. It is known for its 1801 windmill (Heimolen) as well as the cycling race called Memorial Rik Van Steenbergen. The origin of the name of the town is obscure; the most probable etymology refers to ""Arcelar"","
"Guirlande Antwerpen The Guirlande Antwerpen [ɡiʁ.lɑd] (Dutch for ""Garland of Antwerp"") is a sculpture located on the storefront of an antique shop in Antwerp's antique district. It is at Kloosterstraat 81 in the St. Andries quarter. The sculpture was commissioned by Tony Bogaert, one of the first antique dealers of Kloosterstraat. The sculpture was designed and made by the visual artist Bruno de Smedt in 1997. The disorderly sculpture is a sprawling 5.6 metres wide and 7 metres tall (18 by 23 ft), and took de Smedt fully five months to carve. The Guirlande is seen by many as a"
"Kipling (brand) Kipling is a Belgian fashion brand founded in 1987 in Antwerp, Belgium. Kipling brand is part of VF Corporation since 2004. Their most famous collection is Basic, recognizable from its crinkle nylon fabric and monkey key chain. Kipling sells handbags, backpacks, totes, luggage and accessories Kipling was founded in 1987 in Antwerp, Belgium. Kipling's name was inspired by Rudyard Kipling, the author of ""The Jungle Book"". The original designers wanted a name that could be easy to pronounce. The monkey key-hanger is usually associated to Kipling brand. Every Kipling bag comes with a monkey key-hanger. Originally, there was"
"Kipling (brand) Kipling is a Belgian fashion brand founded in 1987 in Antwerp, Belgium. Kipling brand is part of VF Corporation since 2004. Their most famous collection is Basic, recognizable from its crinkle nylon fabric and monkey key chain. Kipling sells handbags, backpacks, totes, luggage and accessories Kipling was founded in 1987 in Antwerp, Belgium. Kipling's name was inspired by Rudyard Kipling, the author of ""The Jungle Book"". The original designers wanted a name that could be easy to pronounce. The monkey key-hanger is usually associated to Kipling brand. Every Kipling bag comes with a monkey key-hanger. Originally, there was"
"original fabrics and layering. He does not advertise. Van Noten works and lives in Antwerp, but his brand has shops in multiple locations worldwide. The first, opening in Antwerp in 1989, was ""Het Modepaleis"". Shop openings in Hong Kong and Tokyo followed. In early 2007, a shop was opened in Paris, decorated with antiques collected by Van Noten and his partner Patrick Vangheluwe, followed ten months later by a shop in Singapore. The brand is said to be carried in some 400 fashion shops around the world. As the brand is a private company, not much is known about its"
"adjacent areas), at Worcester, Coventry, Cranbrook in Kent and some other places. This was the best English cloth, and large quantities were exported by the merchants of the Company of Merchant Adventurers of London, principally to Antwerp as white (""i.e."" undyed) cloth. It was finished and dyed in Flanders, and then marketed throughout northern Europe. The cloths might be short (24 yards long) or long (30 yards long). The raw material for broadcloth from Worcester was wool from the Welsh border counties of Herefordshire and Shropshire, known as Lemster (""i.e."" Leominster) wool. That for the West Country came from the"
"Breendonk Breendonk is a small town in the province of Antwerp, Belgium, with a population 3,000, halfway between Brussels and Antwerp. Its name stems from the medieval ""Bredene Dunc"" which translates as ""wide mound"" or ""a dry spot in the marshes."" In the 19th century it was known for its beautiful Neo-Gothic church and the lavish mansion of the Earl de Buisseret. Both were destroyed by the Belgian army at the start of World War I because they obstructed the gunner's view from the local fortifications. From the 20th century on it was best known for its fortification at Fort"
"since the Middle Ages. In this period, cities such as Ghent, Bruges, and later Antwerp made it one of the richest and most urbanized parts of Europe, trading, and weaving the wool of neighbouring lands into cloth for both domestic use and export. As a consequence, a very sophisticated culture developed, with impressive achievements in the arts and architecture, rivaling those of northern Italy. Belgium was one of the centres of the 19th century industrial revolution but Flanders was at first overtaken by French-speaking Wallonia. In the second half of the 20th century, however, Flanders' economy modernised rapidly, and today"
"name comes from the old Dutch word ""meere"" (lake). Meir used to be a so-called ""wood lake"" (""houtmeer""), where wood destined for use in furniture would be kept wet for a time. Meir, Antwerp Meir is the main shopping street in Antwerp, Belgium. It is the most important shopping area in the country, both by number of shoppers and by rent prices. The street has been mostly pedestrianised since 1993. In the centre of Antwerp, Meir connects the Antwerp City Hall with the trains at Antwerp Central Station. Between 2002 and 2004, it was the most expensive shopping street in"
"is most associated with County Donegal. The original name of the cloth was tweel, Scots for twill, the material being woven in a twilled rather than a plain pattern. A traditional story has the name coming about almost by chance. Around 1831, a London merchant received a letter from a Hawick firm, Wm. Watson & Sons, Dangerfield Mills about some ""tweels"". The merchant misinterpreted the handwriting, understanding it to be a trade-name taken from the river Tweed that flows through the Scottish Borders textile area. The goods were subsequently advertised as Tweed and the name has remained since. Traditionally used"
"Burcht, Antwerp Burcht is a village within the municipality of Zwijndrecht located in the Flemish province of Antwerp, in Belgium. The name Burcht is derived from the old Germanic word “burgipja” which means “birch”, and probably refers to the type of vegetation that grows abundantly in the sandy ground of the area. While very little archaeological excavation has been done in the municipality of Zwijndrecht itself, numerous findings have been documented in the surrounding region, which is referred to as Het Waasland. These have indicated occupation in the area from as early as the end of the Neolithic Period (c."
"Antwerp lace Antwerp lace is a bobbin lace distinguished by stylized flower pot motifs on a six point star ground. It originated in Antwerp, where in the 17th century an estimated 50% of the population of Antwerp was involved in lace making. Antwerp lace is also known, from its familiar repeated motif, as Pot Lace— in Dutch Pottenkant or Potten Kant. It is sometimes said that the flowers were a depiction of the Annunciation lilies; however, the flowers were not limited to lilies. It is a continuous lace, meaning that it was made in one piece on a lace pillow,"