Researchers largely concur that the power of rituals rests within a larger social fabric.
Why do we miss the rituals put on hold by the COVID-19 pandemic?|Sujata Gupta|August 14, 2020|Science News
The world of gravitons only becomes apparent when you zoom in to the fabric of space-time at the smallest possible scales, which requires a device that can harness truly extreme amounts of energy.
How the Bits of Quantum Gravity Can Buzz|Thomas Lewton|July 23, 2020|Quanta Magazine
“The only way to add parks would be to destroy the historic fabric of the neighborhood and that’s never acceptable,” Torio said.
If Your Local Park Sucks, This Is Probably Why|MacKenzie Elmer|July 6, 2020|Voice of San Diego
The effectiveness of fabric masks was in question early on, but studies now suggest that these masks can help curb transmission of the virus — if most people wear them.
Here’s what we’ve learned in six months of COVID-19 — and what we still don’t know|Erin Garcia de Jesus|June 30, 2020|Science News
The structure of the molecules that make up those fabrics lets them attract electrons or give them up, Guha explains.
Science offers recipes for homemade coronavirus masks|Kathiann Kowalski|May 14, 2020|Science News For Students
It's about the delicate fabric of the universe and how our fragile insides crumble when that fabric is torn.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days|David Freeman|December 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
You even went out and bought the fabric for your own Oscar dress, which would be unthinkable for an actress to do today.
All Eyes on Anjelica Huston: The Legendary Actress on Love, Abuse, and Jack Nicholson|Alex Suskind|November 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The women of the city donned their abayas, the fabric drawn in around their waists.
Saudi Activist Manal Al-Sharif on Why She Removed the Veil|Manal Al Sharif, Advancing Human Rights|October 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
However, in all his work, even in many of the nude portraits he took, there are veils, whether of glass or fabric or color washes.
Vogue Photographer Erwin Blumenfeld: Secrets of a Fashion Legend|Tim Teeman|September 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Burlesque artists are often in it for the costumes, spending what they earn on fabric, feathers, and crystals.
Best Career Arc Ever: From Burlesque To Bartending|Anne Berry|September 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Not far away was the wrecked plane, an incongruous mass of streaks where the fabric had ripped through the gas-paint.
Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930|Various
A lottery was finally established for the benefit of the fabric.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece|John Addington Symonds
My section and drawing give a clear idea of the construction of this fabric.
Prehistoric Textile Fabrics Of The United States, Derived From Impressions On Pottery|William Henry Holmes
Upon the precession of the equinoxes they erect a fabric of retrograde chronology, and set a clock to geologic time.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 17, No. 97, January, 1876|Various
Close examination reveals that the triangular sections of fabric used to add fullness to the skirt consist of several pieces.
Women's Bathing and Swimming Costume in the United States|Claudia B. Kidwell
British Dictionary definitions for fabric
fabric
/ (ˈfæbrɪk) /
noun
any cloth made from yarn or fibres by weaving, knitting, felting, etc
the texture of a cloth
a structure or frameworkthe fabric of society
a style or method of construction
rarea building
the texture, arrangement, and orientation of the constituents of a rock
Word Origin for fabric
C15: from Latin fabrica workshop, from faber craftsman