How To Use Yarn In A Sentence
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So again if you're unfamiliar with this yarn and needle arrangement, start by knitting stripes in full needle rib.
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Other than the special sizing application, the greige fabrics are made of the same fibers, yarns and constructions as standard chambray or denim fabrics.
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Did you know that the way that you wrap the yarn around the needle can affect the twist and cause the fabric to bias or that continental style knitting can aggravate carpal tunnel syndrome?
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Company is also engaged in production of downstream products from polyurethane-coated yarn, while equity participation, or holding a number of real estate companies, food and beverage companies.
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Typically, American stocking factories spun their own wool into yarn or thread.
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I filled him up with tarry spunyarn, nailed sheet copper round him, bent some parts in the fire; and we are paying-in without more trouble now.
Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin
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In this kind of slubby yarn producing, the parameters design is the most important thing, which including slubby yarn cycle length, twist, slubby length, slubby count and slubby density.
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This paw-print dishcloth is made of 100% cotton yarn, and the color is called "jute".
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Charney is also determined to make a deeper niche within that niche category, by focusing on more fashionable, more fitted basic T-shirts done in 100 percent combed cotton, 30 single yarn baby ribs and superfine jerseys.
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The kind of writer who can always be depended upon to spin a good yarn?
The Times Literary Supplement
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A certain lugubrious yarn, "My Graves," was my masterpiece.
The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career
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Thread up the second yarn with a long needle or bodkin and thread this second yarn into the correct slot.
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When all the yarn has been entered into the dye-bath, the first stickful is lifted out, the yarn turned over and re-entered in the dye-liquor, this operation is carried out with all the sticks of yarn until the cotton has become dyed of the required depth.
The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student
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He was a gifted conversationalist and had many fine stories and yarns which he could embellish with style.
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Maybe you had better swatch just a little, to be sure the yarn goes with the jabot fabric once it's in knitted form (light is caught differently), before beginning to knit the actual lace.
Jean's Knitting
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It makes life much easier for each large bag to have a small plastic bag on top, filled with yarns of shorter lengths, approximately 18 inches to 3 inches, than the large skeins and/or balls.
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Silk taffeta is lit up with metallic yarns; mesh is wired for a new look; and paillettes add reflections to fabrics.
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This unevenness of the yarn is explored through layering and fraying of raw edges.
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The mill was packed with football shirts, fabrics and yarns ready to be sent across the world.
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For one thing, it's not knit in bainin, the oiled Irish yarn that is scarcer than hen's teeth to find.
The Knitting Curmudgeon
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Rural spinners could not compete with cheap, factory-spun thread, and country weavers could rarely survive far from eastern supplies of yarn and the industry's principal markets.
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The kind of writer who can always be depended upon to spin a good yarn?
The Times Literary Supplement
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The other definition is sheer luxury-gassed yarns, extremely fine gauge tricot, linen and a width of knits woven in patented Benetton new age fabrics.
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When Macintosh tells us his snake stories have seen him banned from every dinner table in the land, he tips us off to the ideal way to view his yarns.
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Thankfully, you no longer have to be a business to get a hold of their superior goods - just this past year, VOFC branched out into the retail hand-knitting yarn world.
Yearn-Worthy Yarns: O-Wool from Vermont Organic Fiber Co
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It was generally believed, too, when I first yarned to people, that some of those who had fled had perished of exhaustion and thirst.
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She put in quite a reasonable quantity of time yarning with Norm Purves' good lady, and I had a beer or two with old Norm and some of the other chappies there.
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Various species of _Lecanora_, particularly _L. tartarea_, known as cudbear, are used in dyeing woollen yarn.
The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
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The higher the denier number, the larger the yarn and, therefore, the heavier and sturdier the fabric.
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It greatly speeds up the process by which two types of fibers can be coaxially blended into a continuous yarn strand.
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Equipped with new detail on the operations of each individual factory, the company boss might feel more comfortable yielding greater discretion to each factory manager; any drop in production - or mysterious disappearance of yarn from the supply room - would raise red flags at the head office.
In defense of middle management
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Egypt, got bousy in the Pyramid of Cheops, ate a beef-steak in the hanging-gardens of Babylon, and listened to no sailors 'yarns at the
The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg
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Merino, cashmere, Angora… these luxury yarns were too expensive to be hastily turned into just another scarf.
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At sea, the sailors are continually engaged in "parcelling," "serving," and in a thousand ways ornamenting and repairing the numberless shrouds and stays; mending sails, or turning one side of the deck into a rope-walk, where they manufacture a clumsy sort of twine, called spun-yarn.
Redburn. His First Voyage
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You don't spend 18 years listening to yarns about footballers without knowing when to take a bung with good grace.
Times, Sunday Times
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I devised these flowery egg cosies to use up oddments of yarn that I had dyed.
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Phew, that's quite a yarn to tell.
Times, Sunday Times
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The prospects for Alan Hollinghurst's awesomely accomplished but languidly paced The Stranger's Child, for example, were surely inferior, in a game of zippy-style bingo, to yarns that Chris Mullin's mates would hail as bona fide page-turners.
The Man Booker judges seem to find reading a bit hard | Catherine Bennett
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Of course, before I could begin, I had to wind the yarn from a skein into a ball – I love to do this, but have had a difficult time doing it without ending up with tangles or knots at some point.
Creative Every Day, Part 9 « Looking for Roots
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Cotton thread produced on spinning wheels or spinning jennies was not generally strong enough to be used as the warp as well as the weft of cloth, which meant that it had to be interwoven with linen or wool yarn.
'The Industrial Revolutionaries'
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Briefly introduce the spinning principle of - spinning core - spun yarn and primary processing parameters that influence yarn properties.
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Given the use of identical yarns, cloths of identical quality may be produced by power-operated shuttle looms and shutterless looms with the following exceptions:
Chapter 6
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Of the hands forward, some of the watch were aloft, working at odd jobs about the rigging, while the drowsy clinking of a spunyarn winch somewhere on the forecastle, in the shadow of the head sails, accounted for the remainder.
The Cruise of the "Esmeralda"
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That's right, puts the yarn on slubber on what we called a
Oral History Interview with Lacy Wright, March 10, 1975. Interview E-0017. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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September 22, 2006 @ 10: 56 pm it looks good in chunky yarn (i know i sound surprised). are you going to stretch it out and block it?
Knitting update. « A Bird’s Nest
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Some yarns will give a neat sideways band using full needle rib but others look very floppy so beware.
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The fortunes of the traditional coir yarn spinners, mat weavers and carpet-makers have been on the downtrend.
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Mother used to spin her own yarn.
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Briefly introduce the spinning principle of - spinning core - spun yarn and primary processing parameters that influence yarn properties.
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For the cafetière cosy, you will need 1 ball chunky-weight yarn.
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For those afflicted with the notion that national politics is on the level and two-dimensional, the following yarn is logical.
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They make cloth, all cotton; cloth of cotton warp and wool filling called drugget; dimity, a heavy cotton used for coverlets; a yarn jean which has wool warp and filling, and cotton jean which is cotton warp and wool filling; homespun is a heavy cloth, of cotton and wool mixed.
Home Life in Colonial Days
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The lecture's organizers have said the lecture was clearly advertised as a series of yarns.
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Mix the ingredients and a compelling story emerges - not only because it is a cracking yarn but because we think we know most of the details already.
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The old captain would often spin us a yarn about life aboard ship.
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Her sweater was faded, with pulls in the yarn, her slacks were baggy at the knees, and her loafers were runover.
DOLL'S EYES
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Using primarily wools and specialty yarns varied in texture and color, the couple creates fine-art wall hangings.
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You can immersion dye, hand paint, drip color onto yarn, overdye already colored yarn, make self-striping yarn.
About.com Knitting
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You don't spend 18 years listening to yarns about footballers without knowing when to take a bung with good grace.
Times, Sunday Times
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The only yarn store in Banff is at in the Banff Springs Hotel, and sells only qiviut.
Vacation! - And She Knits Too!
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The edging is a piece of ribbon folded over the side of the arch and stitched down; I then added some eyelash yarn along the outside edge with a blind hem stitch.
Blue flowery arch
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In his rich, patrician voice he would spin soaring, painfully funny metaphysical yarns from the apparent chaos of his life.
Times, Sunday Times
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The yarn is woven into a coarse fabric.
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A real Guernsey is 100% wool, made with yarn spun to a certain specification and weighing in at about one kilo.
Coolhunter: The Guernsey
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The first water-powered cotton spinning mills typically expanded production by putting out yarn to be woven by members of farming families.
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The yarn is a combination of thin, metallic alloys with natural and synthetic yarns such as cotton, polyester or silk.
Times, Sunday Times
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Silk is spooled off large reels along the top and two, four or six strands are wound together onto spindles at the bottom, making a stronger yarn.
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The yarn would usually be mordanted with oxalic acid from wood sorrel, iron, or even an alkaline solution made from stale urine.
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The old sailor loves to spin yarns about his life at sea.
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with him was Oholiab son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan-a craftsman and designer, and an embroiderer in blue, purple and scarlet yarn and fine linen.
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These are the staple elements of a yarn retold down the centuries.
Times, Sunday Times
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Now a native doctor himself, he uses the same medicines to colour the silk for his yarn paintings.
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The boatswain, climbing up with marlinspikes and bunches of spunyarn rovings, or kneeling on the yard and ready to take a turn with the midship-stop, had acute and fleeting visions of his old woman and the youngsters in a moorland village.
The Nigger of the Narcissus
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So she came around and I got to work on the iPod as we had a bit of a yarn.
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The term double knitting DK came to the United States from Britain and refers to a weight of yarn that is between a worsted and a sportweight.
A Passion for Knitting
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Here our friend _Anamnesis_ seemed fatigued, as if he thought he had spun a sufficiently _long yarn_ on the subject; so we prevailed on him to prosecute the walk, as evening was beginning to close in -- not, indeed, without apprehension that he would make a stand at several other interesting plants on which it might suit him to prelect!
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.
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For men, shirts in light shades are crafted from fine long staple yarn.
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This yarn is mothproof, shrink-proof, colorfast, non-allergenic and machine washable and dryable.
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You could have met anyone there - holders of multiple All-Ireland medals, golfers, university professors, artists, bogmen, yarn spinners, silage contractors, balladmakers, poets and rogues galore.
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In both cases, yarn-dyed or piece-dyed, the dyeing operation is always preceded by boiling-off, a process in which the gum (sericin) is removed from the fibre.
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These threads are woven into textile yarns to produce sacks, carpet base, mats, rope and twine and many other materials.
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An ideal young boy's yarn about the earnest young English couple shipwrecked off the coast of Darkest Africa.
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Fabrics made of yarns that aren't tightly twisted, such as gabardine, are particularly prone to shine.
When Suits Suffer from Wear and Tear
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'I've been looking at your men handling that gun, and my opinion is, that if you gets a butt, crams in a carronade, well woulded up, and fill it with old junk and rope yarns, you might parbuckle it up to the very top.'
Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2
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Frank Sheldon Anthony, a pioneering exponent of the New Zealand comic yarn, lived as a backblocks farmer in south Taranaki from the 1890s till 1924.
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I got home, had a yarn with my Mum about the various things she had been doing as of late, that is to say she told me what she has been doing and I listened.
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Made of soft cotton rich pique, knitted with subtle two-color yarn, if features a self-fabric banded collar, contrasting inside locker patch, full button placket, hemmed sleeve, and vented tail.
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I put down the bootee I'd just finished and picked up the yarn to make another.
Seeds of Yesterday
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The only patterns available were for hand knitting and no one had mentioned mock rib or using waste yarn.
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Among the myriad rebuses on the aforementioned double-sided sheet at Windsor, there is an elaborate one on the verso that includes an image of a black yarnwinder.
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Women from the Pattushali community have all the traditional items necessary for ginning (separating the cotton from seed), carding, slivering and spinning into fine yarn, some of which can be over 100 counts.
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The castle rose, towers and flying buttresses, one of the aunt's bobby pins with a bit of yarn for a pennant.
THE SHIPPING NEWS
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It processes raw fibre into yarn, which is then woven into cloth, so it has total control of the finished product.
Times, Sunday Times
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It processes raw fibre into yarn, which is then woven into cloth, so it has total control of the finished product.
Times, Sunday Times
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She talks to local farmers about fleeces, the mills about yarns, the CSIRO about new techniques, and local knitters about stitches.
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About 200 yardages produced with natural fibres like cotton, wool, silk, and jute in natural dyes and the different structures using different counts of yarn are being displayed in the show.
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Rene laughed at me, having overheard my long phone chat and assumed it was some old buddy, and I told her that no, it was still the Telstra guy, and we were having a yarn while his technology tried to sort itself out.
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Most of the yarns were classic yarns in wool, acrylic, cotton, alpaca, etc.
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No longer confined to the realm of the patriot, this homespun yarn has now entered the territory of international and domestic fashion.
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The fourth section on processing has chapters on ginning, classing of fiber, spinning, yarn preparation, and cottonseed processing.
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There was a guy in there showing a girl how to spin yarn using a spindle.
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four-ply yarn
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The fineness of the fibers, spun with a high degree of twist, gives the yarn a springy resilience.
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Exceptionally soft bicomponent yarn is being spun with a new tandem spinning system.
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The principal manufactures are winceys, ginghams, woollen shirtings, flannels, linen thread, linen yarn, ropes, and fishing nets; and there are engineering and ironfounding works.
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We are running short of other items as well: wicks for candles, herbs and medicines, thread and yarn for mending, and nearly anything small, metal, and commonly-used.
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I’d choose a wool/bamboo and maybe nylon blend – trekking pro natura is a little different than the rest of the bamboo pack (made with bamboo fibers rather than bamboo pulp) and I think it is a very lovely yarn.
Knitting with bamboo sock yarn? « Compulsive Knitter
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unwind a ball of yarn
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In a barn they found four men dismantling bobbins of yarn, packed with the Sovereign cigarettes.
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What should be a gripping yarn about Spartacus gets buried under a parade of knowledge.
Times, Sunday Times
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This frame has a leather mat and hanging strap, and is fringed with scrap yarn.
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When the paper patterns were colored, the stitcher replicated the colors with her palette of soft merino wool yarns.
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However, the twist to this yarn is that some of the players competed against each other on opposing sides.
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A fascinating mix of braids, tassels, chenilles and decorative trimmings in delicate silken yarn complements the entire package.
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He knew that on the highest floor a devil would tear the fiber asunder, that it would then go to the scutcher, and have the dust and dirt blown away, then that carding machines would lay all the fibers parallel, that drawing machines would group them into slender ribbons, and a roving machine twist them into a soft cord, and then that a mule or a throstle would spin the roving into yarn, and the yarn would go to the weaving-rooms, where a thousand wonderful machines would turn them into miles and miles of calico; the machines doing all the hard work, while women and girls adjusted and supplied them with the material.
The Measure of a Man
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We yarned for a few minutes, during which time Mick's swingers were going up and down like yoyo's from line bites.
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Genuine bobbinet tulle is constructed by warp and weft yarns in which the weft yarn is looped diagonally around the vertical warp yarn to form a hexagonal mesh which is regular and clearly defined.
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The yarn color of each vertical line and horizontal line in weave diagram represented should be marked clearly. The weave diagram can be drawn according to the arrangement of colored warp and weft.
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If it really worries you, you could probably break the yarn, retwist just spin it around and then spit splice it back together.
I have a question about twining.
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He spun us this unlikely yarn about being trapped for hours in a broken lift.
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Nor do I think the books are especially brilliant, beyond the undeniable genius of crossbreeding the various deathless genres of children's fantasy to spin a yarn both traditional and contemporary in its appeal.
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I didn't like that the prices for the yarn are on totally unseeable places, I couldn't find the price for most of the yarns that I was looking at and had to actually ask twice.
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You could hardly make this up, and a less reticent narrator might have turned it into a ripping yarn.
Times, Sunday Times
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For many years we were one of the largest stockists of knitting machines and coned yarns in the UK.
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That's when we dance, sing and swap yarns... the stories of our lives, all highly dramatized, as you can imagine.
THE BLACK OPAL
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Old relics dotted the entrance beyond; knots of yarn and wool rippled, brightly-colored etchings which reflected dully in the sepulchral gloom.
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About five minutes after she started I cut the spunyarn.
Doctor Luke of the Labrador
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In addition to the laugh and I do agree with Icanhasyarn that this one looks like a gallows, which is a particularly horrific motif for a birthday cake, I also have the comfort of knowing my birthday cake - since I will be making it myself - will look ever so much more festive and happ.
One Really IS the Loneliest Number
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And he was sitting there and he said Hello, and then we kind of got to yarning about what he did, and I said, ‘Oh well, my father was in the war,’ and he said, ‘What was his name?’
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I left the Studio with some nice stuff, pictured here. 2 hanks of the lovely Rio de la Plata (the other Uruguayan yarn), 2 hanks of Ironstone mohair, and 1 hank of Ironstone cotton tape.
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I took a skinny 4 ply yarn and knitted it double.
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The VFPCK initiative aims at introducing mechanised spinning of yarn out of these stems.
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Yarn hairiness directly affects producing efficiency and the appearance of yarn.
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For Amelia Heaton-Renshaw, that implausible yarn is the true story of her two-year-old Shanghai business, Amelia's Marketplace, which bills itself as the city's 'jam and chutney hotline.'
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A beautiful, gripping sea yarn of the soul.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then that complicated yarn about conspiracies and blackmail--it just didn't ring true, in Crook's opinion.
STAGE FRIGHT
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The only things they had to give in return were parrots and balls of cotton-yarn, besides cassava cakes, formed from the flour of a root called yuca, which they cultivated in their fields.
Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold
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The problem if you tuck for too many rows is that the needle just can not hold that many loops of yarn.
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It is a good thing to have hydrosulphite slightly in excess as this prevents premature oxidization; too much will strip off the indigo white already deposited on the yarn.
Vegetable Dyes Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer
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Now a native doctor himself, he uses the same medicines to colour the silk for his yarn paintings.
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‘This spinning wheel is a little darling,’ she added, deftly teasing out a skein of deep bluey green yarn - a luxury mixture of mohair, merino and silk.
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His wife employs six women at Mallika Cottage Industry at Chintadripet, where made-to-order doormats and dhurries are manufactured from waste cotton yarn.
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Again a further birds-eye-backed fabric is produced in which the yarn knitting on courses 9 and 11 is of the same colour as that knitted on courses 1,3,5 and 7.
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When all the yarn has been entered into the dye-bath, the first stickful is lifted out, the yarn turned over and re-entered in the dye-liquor; this operation is carried out with all the sticks of yarn until the wool has become dyed of the required depth.
The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics
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(Pictured: Marigold flowers and Mango leaves, depicted in yarn, woven into a garland or "toran", a must-have for every festive occasion in Maharashtra) ...
Archive 2007-05-01
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Wool, for example, was frequently dyed before being spun to ensure an even color in cloths that required tightly spun yarns.
The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
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This is a cracker - an unputdownable, rattling good hunting yarn, where the quarry is books, and the author (as self-deprecating and as amusing as Woody Allen) is the great white hunter.
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In fact, Lucy preferred art, and before she died, she had learned to sculpt using her favorite red yarn—favorite since early cathood—in large cursive letters: G, L, J, and the symbol for pi.
Animals in Reverse
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The ends are now whipped with twine or yarn and finally "snaked," which is done by taking the end under and over the outer turns of the seizing alternately.
Knots, Splices and Rope Work A Practical Treatise
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However I'm currently cleansing my palette by finishing off my festival photography show (all will be revealed eventually) and by making a set of classic, plain pots and bowls in undyed British fleeces and yarns - Black Welsh, Blue Faced Leicester, North Ronaldsay and Jacob sheep, possibly some Wensleydale too.
Imaginary Invertebrates Galore!
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Marsh was a splendid sort, a capital pilot and skipper and tough as they came, I guessed, but with a fund of yarns and partial to a convivial glass or a hand at euchre.
Isabelle
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After the yarn had been spun it would be dyed using natural dyes.
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I've been knitting with so many inelastic yarns (cotton, cotton/silk, etc), that I really wanted to work with wool.
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A skein of gorgeous bombyx silk yarn from Ellen's Half Pint Farm in Norwich, VT:
Rhinebeck
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Indeed, even coastal fisheries were severely hampered after 1941 by mounting shortages of cotton yarn, ramie, Manila hemp, and, most importantly, petroleum.
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I knit with acrylic yarn all of the time, and there are some yarns that I really like.
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The goop is a brown-green, and it delivers a putrid-looking earth tone to the yarn, but in a magic moment of oxidization, this color suddenly explodes into electric blue.
Néojaponisme » Blog Archive » Infiniti Brand Journey: Kyoto
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The Yarnbury backs defended well and continued to hold the attackers at bay.
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It encourages neighbours to lean across for a yarn.
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The Classic Elite Zoom I bought for it might do nicely for the little cell phone cozies in Sn’B Nation – I could dye the yarn with Kool Aid!
2005 February 24 « Compulsive Knitter
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Carey satirizes literary culture, plays with archetypes, exoticism, and the convolutions of travel yarns, and evokes Malaysia and Indonesia with aplomb.
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A gripping yarn of the soul.
Times, Sunday Times
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And maybe even worse than that, it seems we all have an appetite for good yarns like the story of the Harvard student.
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The fabrics include washed denims, soft poplins, heavy canvas, twills, and yarn-dyed plaids.
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Thread yarn through remaining stitches and join seam.
The Sun
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I laid out layers of colour and added various fancy yarns, metallic threads, throwsters silk, silk tops, and even some alpaca fleece given to me by a friend with her own herd of alpacas.
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With remainder of yarn, twist a cord or crochet a chain cord.
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But sailors are not easily disheartened, and they forthwith set to work to manufacture a new line out of the rope which they still had in the boat; Tom carefully unlaying the strands and jointing the yarns, whilst George tried his best to manufacture a hook out of a nail drawn from the gunwale of the boat.
The Voyage of the Aurora
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In Fig. 5 is shown Mather & Platt's yarn-bleaching kier, which is designed to bleach cotton yarn, either in hanks or in the warp forms, without removing it from the vessel into which it is first placed.
The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student
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Use a small size steel crochet hook and lift the lower loop over the wrapped yarn and then over the head of the nail.
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Towel repair loom is used to weave cotton yarn , helix satinstrips and decoration satinstrips towel woof , such as face towel , square towel, bath towel with differ materials.
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Wild as the birds in the sun-drenched trees, their children skulked shyly behind the sulky wheels or scuttled for the protection of the woodheap while their parents yarned over cups of tea, swapped tall stories and books, promised to pass on vague messages to Hoopiron Collins or Brumby Waters, and told the fantastic tale of the Pommy jackaroo on Gnarlunga.
The Thorn Birds
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Then he is to take the cedar wood, the hyssop, the scarlet yarn and the live bird, dip them into the blood of the dead bird and the fresh water, and sprinkle the house seven times.
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Illustrated in the book are other articles made in the Dominy shop for family use, such as a wooden bowl made of a burl from an apple tree and a swift to wind wool yarn.
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Others have tentatively suggested that the yarnwinder may allude to the spindle of the Three Fates, and should thus be regarded as a metonymic symbol of death - a classical counterpart to the cross.
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i've never knt twinned, but i have unspun yarn and all you have to do is retwist if you are worried.
I have a question about twining.
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We like to play the advert in our wool-lined bunker before a yarnstorm to remind us why we work so hard to do something original.
Vodafone Controversy
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spin a yarn
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Again a further birds-eye-backed fabric is produced in which the yarn knitting on courses 9 and 11 is of the same colour as that knitted on courses 1,3,5 and 7.
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A gripping yarn you will be unable to put down.
The Sun
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A case study of cause-and-effect, it's also a yarn of dangerously defective brotherly love.
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At China's Hang Zhou Silk Factory, the yarn is reeled, graded, color coded by a temporary dye, twisted, washed and wound into skeins.
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I cast on at the bottom of the gansey with the yarn doubled for strength, but forgot when binding off the sleeve cuffs.
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For example: bar copper, Auto leather covered piece, covered yarn, snap lock, seam cleat, air curtain shell, refrigerator shell.
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All process can be accomplished by automatic from takin paper, yarn and glue to forming sack, compounding, margin folding, printing, pin-hole pricking, cutting, counting and sack out.
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Also on display on the cart are accessories once familiar to thousands of East Lancashire weavers - shuttles and pirns on which weft yarn was wound.
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They're in yarn-dyed jacquard in pima cotton with contrast piping.
Times, Sunday Times
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For the entrance to the courtyard, provide a curtain twenty cubits long, of blue, purple and scarlet yarn and finely twisted linen-the work of an embroiderer-with four posts and four bases.
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Galloway Street beautifully captures the harshness of poverty and the warm good humour of a childhood dominated by songs, yarns and the yearnings of his Irish relatives for their native land.
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New Englanders saved weaving drafts written on the back of old letters, handmade dye books, and yarn reels carved in some farmer's dooryard.
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It makes me sick of myself, to make such a fash and bobbery over a rotten end of an old nursery yarn, not worth spitting on when done.
Vailima Letters
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Rough silk in plain weave with irregular filling yarns that give it a slubbed or textured effect; originally of wild silk.
HOME COMFORTS
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A good reason for making it piece-dyed is that this method is much cheaper than if the yarn is dyed previous to the weaving.
Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades
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Two strands of yarn interwoven to make one rope.
Times, Sunday Times
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Many of the second and third generation of settlers grew flax and spun and wove yarn in addition to tending a small farm.
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This fabric offers a nice complement to the new pure silk woven yarn-dyed plaids coming out of China for draperies and bedding accessories.
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Fabric made with this tandem-spun yarn doesn't pill, since the core fiber - often a high-tenacity polyester that is prone to cause pilling - is almost completely encased in cotton, which doesn't pill.
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Typically, American stocking factories spun their own wool into yarn or thread.
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In support of the nonimportation movements of 1765 and 1769, the Daughters of Liberty used their traditional skills to weave yarn and wool into homemade cloth they called homespun, which made America less dependent on British textiles.
History of American Women
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Carey satirizes literary culture, plays with archetypes, exoticism, and the convolutions of travel yarns, and evokes Malaysia and Indonesia with aplomb.
