Itajime shibori is a shaped-resist technique. Traditionally, the cloth is sandwiched between two pieces of wood, which are held in place with string. More modern textile artists can be found using shapes cut from acrylic or plexiglass and holding the shapes with C-clamps.
The definition of a conflagration is a massive destructive fire. An example of a conflagration is a large fire that burns up two houses. a big, destructive fire.
The con-in conflagration is an intensive prefix and does not mean âwith,â which would be meaningless here. The noun flagration is obsolete in English, and the verb conflagrate is uncommon. The Latin verb flagrÄre and its compound conflagrÄre derive from the Latin root flag- âto burn,â the same root as the noun flamma âa flameâ (from an unrecorded flagma).