When you wear a mask – even a cloth mask – you typically are exposed to a lower dose of the coronavirus than if you didn’t.
Cloth Masks Do Protect The Wearer – Breathing In Less Coronavirus Means You Get Less Sick|LGBTQ-Editor|August 20, 2020|No Straight News
Surgical masks are not as protective as N95s, but they do shield the wearer from droplets and fluids better than the now ubiquitous cloth masks—3% to 25% better, depending on the study.
Unmade in America|Tate Ryan-Mosley|August 14, 2020|MIT Technology Review
Although all trainees and staff were required to wear cloth masks, campers were not.
Coronavirus outbreak at camp infected more than 200 kids and staff|Erin Garcia de Jesus|August 4, 2020|Science News For Students
Many cloth masks you can buy today are made of simple cotton, but the World Health Organization recommends that non-medical fabric masks have three layers of fabric, each made of a different material to serve a different protective role.
The WHO’s guide to making more effective reusable masks|Katherine Ellen Foley|July 18, 2020|Quartz
In addition to paper, kirigami can reshape sheets of wood, cloth or metal.
Shape-shifting cuts give shoes a better grip|Carolyn Wilke|July 14, 2020|Science News For Students
Paper and cloth are cheap, what people are paying for is the story.
Glenn Beck Is Now Selling Hipster Clothes. Really.|Ana Marie Cox|December 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
No piece of cloth throughout history has sparked more controversy as the veil.
Saudi Activist Manal Al-Sharif on Why She Removed the Veil|Manal Al Sharif, Advancing Human Rights|October 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Novelty aside, the real question is whether these avowedly chaste men of the cloth are listening.
The Vatican's Same-Sex Synod: The Bishops Hear About Reality. Do They Listen?|Barbie Latza Nadeau|October 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Instead, Ernst is seen as a “likable, relatable person” who is cut “from the cloth of small-town Iowa.”
The Bruce Braley-Joni Ernst Race Is Iowa’s Ugliest Senate Campaign Ever|Ben Jacobs|July 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
My nostrils have smelt the horrors of the (cloth) diaper pail.
Why Men Shouldn’t Wait To Have Kids|Conor P. Williams|March 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The cloth is to be next washed in the river; and lastly with water only, in the fulling mill.
A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines|Andrew Ure
She whisked off with her cloth to the screen, deposited it, reappeared.
A Sheaf of Corn|Mary E. Mann
Having lost the old Gospel, the men of the cloth became eager exponents of the “social gospel” of that day.
Hymns and Hymnwriters of Denmark|Jens Christian Aaberg
But meteor detectors are built to look for solid chunks of metal and rock—not thin, porous bits of cloth.
Hanging by a Thread|Gordon Randall Garrett
Two pails of water flanked this rack, in each of which had been thrust a slotted hickory "wiper" threaded with a square of cloth.
The Adventures of Bobby Orde|Stewart Edward White
British Dictionary definitions for cloth
cloth
/ (klɒθ) /
nounpluralcloths (klɒθs, klɒðz)
a fabric formed by weaving, felting or knitting wool, cotton, etc
(as modifier)a cloth bag
a piece of such fabric used for a particular purpose, as for a dishcloth
the cloth
the clothes worn by a clergyman
the clergy
obsoleteclothing
nauticalany of the panels of a sail
mainlyBritisha piece of coloured fabric, used on the stage as scenery
Western Africana garment in a traditional non-European style
Word Origin for cloth
Old English clāth; related to Old Frisian klēth, Middle High German kleit cloth, clothing