Corduroy
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Corduroy is a textile with a distinctively raised "cord" or wale texture. Modern corduroy is most commonly composed of tufted cords, sometimes exhibiting a channel between them. Both velvet and cordur
Cotton corduroy
Cotton and woolen corduroy
Graphite-coloured standard corduroy to the left showing approx 7 wales-per-inch, with brown needlecord at 16 wales to the inch
1756 advertisement mentioning "cordesoys"
Corduroy road
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A corduroy road or log road is a type of road or timber trackway made by placing logs, perpendicular to the direction of the road over a low or swampy area. This is an improvement from mud or dirt roa
Corduroy
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Corduroy road
German soldiers by corduroy road in a Polesian village (Ukraine, 1918)
In war, corduroy roads are often used as an emergency measure where poor quality roads have been damaged by the large numbers of vehicles or troops that have passed over them. Seen here are Germans in Yugoslavia in 1944.
Excavation of a corduroy road from the 16th century in Oranienburg, Germany