Mattresses are still largely confined to the priority classes, but pillows and pillowcases are freely available.
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It will carry about eight tons of sheets and pillowcases, towels, curtain material, hospital and children's blankets, elastoplast dressings, and some toys for the younger children.
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They had no sheets, pillowcases or towels.
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In modern timesblue calico is used to make the daily clothes, mosquito nets, pillowcases, baggage cloth, etc.
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She was also employed in a candle shop and in a factory sewing headscarfs and pillowcases.
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The first paos, made with pieces of bedsheets and pillowcases, were made in the 1930s.
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She is always ironing her bedsheets and pillowcases, and refuses to talk about what happened.
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They learn to make embroidered pillowcases and bed coverings or crocheted lace tablecloths, bedcovers, and lace trim.
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As well as parasols, slippers, baby clothes, curtains, place mats, mantillas, beddings and pillowcases embroidered or crocheted by the extraordinary dextrous ladies of the archipelago.
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She wears apillowcasearound whenever possible and is angered when she can not.
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His dark curly hair is tied in a bunch behind over which he wears caps improvised out of colourful pillowcases.
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He tied the two friends up, pulled pillowcases over their heads, and told them to count to 1,000.
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The architect himself designed monograms and other motifs for pillowcases, cushions, handkerchiefs, tablecloths, bedspreads and quilts, which were embroidered by his wife and his sisters.
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Aside from clothing, other items decorated with embroidery are towels, tablecloths, bench covers, veils and kerchiefs, and pillowcases.
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