Madras (cloth) handwoven (evidenced by the small flaws in the fabric). Cotton madras is woven from a fragile, short-staple cotton fiber that can't be combed, only carded, resulting in bumps known as slubs which are thick spots in the yarn that give madras its unique texture. The cotton is hand-dyed after being spun into yarn, woven and finished in some 200 small villages in the Madras area. Madras fabric is generally regarded as belonging to the peasant class in its native India. Dutch traders arrived in India in the early 1600s to trade in the local calico cloth, followed by the British.
North Russian Plain peninsula, a lowland island Kolguev. Particularly noteworthy biomes such as the delta of the Northern Dvina and Pechora delta. Lowlands in the east limit Pai-Khoi and the Northern Urals. Soil which dominates the northern and north-western is slope of the earth's surface, whereby Russian North Plains was named North slope. This effect on the local hydrography. This also explains the slight warming of soil in the summer. The south of the region is dominated by boreal forest and northern vegetation poorer. Here lie the Malozemelskaya Tundra and Bolshezemelskaya Tundra. North Russian Plain North Russian Plain () is a plain, occupying