Word Finder - yarn

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A twisted strand of fiber used for knitting or weaving.

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Bundles of fibers twisted together, and which in turn are twisted in bundles to form strands, which in their turn are twisted or plaited to form rope.

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A story, a tale, especially one that is incredible.

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To tell a story or stories.

This determines to a large extent the fineness of the yarn which can be spun.

The English cotton yarn and spun silk counts are reckoned upon the number of hanks of 840 yds.

The materials required are iron borings, sal-ammoniac and sulphur; these are mixed together, moistened with water, and rammed into the socket, which is previously half filled with yarn, well caulked.

Its industrial products are yarn, calico, woollen goods, thread.

The spinner who persists in over-weighting his yarn finds it difficult to obtain "repeat" orders.

The core is served with a thick coating of wet jute, yarn or hemp (h), forming a soft bed for the sheath, and, to secure immunity from the ravages of submarine boring animals, e.g.

Its manufactures of yarn are on the largest scale, the spinning mills often working night and day for many months together.

Linen yarn and cloth are largely manufactured, especially in the south about Osnabruck and Hildesheim, and bleaching is engaged in extensively; woollen cloths are made to a considerable extent in the south about Einbeck, Göttingen and Hameln; cotton-spinning and weaving have their principal seats at Hanover and Linden.

The spinning or throwing which follows is done on a frame with upright spindles and flyers, the yarn as it is twisted being drawn forward through guides and wound on revolving bobbins with a reciprocating motion.

In selling yarn for export it is usual to allow the buyer only 11% for payment in 14 days, or in some cases the discount is at the rate of 5% per annum for 3 months, which is equivalent to 14%.

A remarkable point in the Lancashire yarn trade is the looseness of the contracts between spinner and manufacturer.

Leave a length of yarn for joining shoulder seams.

The white and red lead are mixed together to form a putty, and are filled into the socket alternately with layers of well-caulked yarn, starting with yarn and finishing off with the lead mixture.

Some spinners cover their yarn contracts merely by buying " futures," but the cover thus provided is frequently most inadequate owing to variations in the " points on or off" for the particular cotton that they want.

Rowan organic cotton yarn is a soft, 100% organic cotton yarn.

Cut dozens of eight-inch-long yarn pieces to make the doll's hair.

The count of jute yarn is based upon the weight in pounds of 14,400 yds., such length receiving the name of "spyndle."

Among the original land-holders were Matthew Grant and Thomas Dewey, ancestors respectively of General ' In the township of Windsor Locks (pop. 1910, 3715), immediately north, cotton yarn and thread, silk, paper, steel and machinery are manufactured.

A subtle textured acrylic mix yarn perfect for knitting.

Instruct guests to cut the yarn to the circumference size they believe matches the new mommy's tummy.

The most expensive yarn fibers are wool or silk.

It's a good rule of thumb to always buy more yarn than you think you are going to need.

It is customary to mix these colours together, thus producing a curious ginger-coloured yarn, which upon being dyed black in the piece takes a fuller and deeper shade than can be obtained by piecedyeing a solid-coloured wool.

Apparently alpaca yarn was spun in England for the first time about the year 1808.

These two attempts to use alpaca were failures owing to the style of fabric into which the yarn was woven - a species of camlet.

The fibre began to receive attention in Great Britain towards the close of the 18th century, and early in the 19th century it was spun into yarn and woven into cloth in the town of Abingdon.

The pioneers of the jute industry, who did not understand this necessity, or rather who did not know how the woody and brittle character of the fibre could be remedied, were greatly perplexed by the difficulties they had to encounter, the fibre spinning badly into a hard, rough and hairy yarn owing to the splitting and breaking of the fibre.

Batch setting is the first part of this operation; it consists of selecting the different kinds or qualities of jute for any predetermined kind of yarn.

The doublings play a very important part in the appearance of the ultimate rove and yarn, for the chief reason for doubling threads or slivers is to minimize irregularities of thickness and of colour in the material.

The rove yarn is now ready for the spinning frame, where a further draft of about eight is given.

It is not uncommon to find zoo lb to 300 lb rove yarn, while the weight occasionally reaches 450 lb per spyndle.

The different sizes of yarn are extensively used in a large variety of fabrics, sometimes alone, sometimes in conjunction with other fibres, e.g.

The chief items were cotton piece-goods, rice not in the husk, sugar, grain and pulse, salt, iron and steel, tobacco, cotton twist and yarn, and brass and copper.

A Persian gentleman erected a cotton-spinning factory at Teheran in 1894 with expensive machinery; it turned out some excellent yarn but could not compete in price with imported yarns.

The principal imports into Persia in approximate order of value are cottons, sugar, tea, woollens, cotton yarn, petroleum, stuffs of wool and cotton mixed, wool, hardware, ironmongery, matches, iron and steel, dyes, rice, spices and glass-wdre.

Spinning and weaving are carried on among the people as a household occupation, and fabrics are made of an exceptionally substantial character.It is not uncommon to see the natives busily twirling their rude spindles as they follow their troops of pack animals over rough mountain roads, and the yarn produced is woven into cloth in their own houses on rough Spanish looms of colonial patterns.

The exports are chiefly bacon and butter; the imports, iron, yarn, coal and timber.

The spinning of flax by machinery was introduced early in the 19th century by 1VIr John Marshall, a Holbeck manufacturer, who was one of the first to apply Sir Richard Arkwright's water frame, invented for cotton manufacture, to the spinning of linen yarn.

When the particular kind was not specified by the law or by agreement, the payments were made according to convenience in horses, cattle, sheep, pigs, wool, butter, bacon, corn, vegetables, yarn, dye-plants, leather, cloth, articles of use or ornament, &c. As the clan system relaxed, and the fine lost its legal power of fixing the amounts of public tributes, which were similarly payable to the flaith, and neglected its duty of seeing that those tributes were duly applied, the flaith became able to increase these tributes with little check, to confuse them with rent, to confuse jurisdiction with ownership, and to exalt himself at the expense of his fellowclansmen.

The demand in China for cotton yarn, chiefly the produce of the Bombay mills, has been steadily on the increase.

According to Newenham's tables the annual average of new drapery exported from Ireland for the three years ending March 1702 was only 20 pieces, while the export of woollen yarn; worsted yarn and wool, which to England was free, amounted to 349,410 stones.

There are shipbuilding yards, with foundry, engineering shops, &c.; the chief export is agricultural produce; imports, iron, coal, cereals and yarn.

The principal manufactures are furniture, yarn, soap, tobacco, sugar, vitriol and earthenware.

The ancient industry was woollen, but soon after the invention of the spinning frame the cotton trade was introduced, and as early as 1769 the weaving of ginghams, nankeens and calicoes was carried on, and the weaving of cotton yarn by machinery soon became the staple industry.

The principal articles of import are coffee, cotton-piece goods, &c., grain, hides, coal, opium, cottontwist and yarn.

Gauging by the huge basket of yarn at her side, Sofi was crocheting an entire wardrobe for their unborn son.

White bryony is a member of the melon family and black bryony is a member of the yarn family.

The yarn is so light that a little bolero cardigan is a perfect cover-up for Spring.

It also supplies cashmere yarn to Dawson International's premium cashmere yarn to Dawson International's premium cashmere brand, Ballantyne.

Knit 6 rows WY, 1 row of ravel cord or crochet thread, then start using your main yarn.