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Sentence Examples In the cotton industry, for example, most firms either spun yarn or wove cloth, which was in turn sent to an independent dyer and finisher. The double ikat entails yarn with more than one colour on the weft or the warp or both. In the center of the fabric, put a balled up wad of fabric scraps, cotton, or yarn. He tells his crew not to spin a yarn when making requests, but to realize that financial managers understand facilities are important. Ryan has an eye for detail and a knack for spinning a yarn from many loose threads, and these talents make the book highly readable. This unevenness of the yarn is explored through layering and fraying of raw edges. Clearly Harris would not have devoted all her considerable energies into spinning a yarn if she did not have something to say as well. Exceptionally soft bicomponent yarn is being spun with a new tandem spinning system. He was told to spin jute yarn by a hand rotating machine, because of which his palms were blistered and, at times, bleeding. It's a mystery that ultimately is revealed as Cornelia spins her yarn for the man she has chosen to share her secret. These bits of wool, second cuts, or noils must be carded out or they make slubs in the finished yarn. Using variegated yarn for the weft automatically creates a delightful striped pattern as the student continues weaving. With each character's introduction, the film ups the ante on the promise of a good yarn solidly told. Then we used yarn, raffia, feathers, beads, felt and sticks, either sewn, stapled, glued, braided or wrapped. In the old house, Judith Collins sits doing needlepoint as young Nora runs up to her with a ball of yarn. One is made from brown needlecord, with wool felt ears and some chenille yarn for whiskers and a tail. The slubbing machine took the raw wool and combed it into long ropes of yarn that could easily be spun in the spinning machines. Spinning frames draw these slubbing or condensing out to the required fineness of yarn and insert twist to form the yarn. During winding a bar holds the slubbing down so that the spindle rotation causes the twisted yarn to be wound onto the cop. I have no complaints with the yarn, except for the occasional gigantic slub or break that's been tied up. Show More Sentences In a barn they found four men dismantling bobbins of yarn, packed with the Sovereign cigarettes. I left the store with a few new skeins of yarn and an entire set of round looms. I drove to the beautiful Fisher Building in Detroit and then I counted skeins and skeins of yarn for the inventory at City Knits. Each skein of yarn sat neatly in its place, the loom itself dominating the room. I was so pleased with the Noro York sweater that I went back to the yarn store and came home with another ten skeins of Kureyon. Many yarn manufacturers make mothproof wool, which is chemically treated to repel or kill moths that come in contact with it. This yarn is mothproof, shrink-proof, colorfast, non-allergenic and machine washable and dryable. The fineness of the fibers, spun with a high degree of twist, gives the yarn a springy resilience. Continuous loops of yarn are linked together in rows, using a stitch similar to that of the blanket stitch. Finally, acrylic and modacrylic are the predominant fibers used in the fast-growing craft yarn market. Competition moves in on the missus but she spins some yarn and wards them off. An ideal young boy's yarn about the earnest young English couple shipwrecked off the coast of Darkest Africa. She scans the Craigslist Arts Forum for advice about casting on and binding off and the other unfathomable stuff you do with yarn. I can't remember whether she messaged me, or I was simply pro-active, but I called Allison and we had a yarn on the phone. Now the frame looms specially designed to handle the synthetic yarn have doubled the income of the weavers. The yarn is a cashmere merino laceweight that I bought from Scotland, in a very soft linen colour. Dana made thrum-catcher bags to place by loom and collect little scraps of fiber or yarn for garnetting. There were two kinds of throstle spinners, one kind for the warp yarn and one kind for the filling yarn. Cut pile carpet has yarn that is cut at the surface rather than looped back to the carpet. Six needles, already threaded with colored yarn, are laid out next to each other so that the colors of the threads simulate a rainbow of sorts. Show More Sentences The fire glows, venison stew simmers, the hunter and his mates drink beer and yarn on into a New Zealand night. The Spinning Mule marked a turning point for the textile industry as it massively increased the quantity and quality of yarn spun. The use of knobby, marled wool yarn gives each tulip-shaped hat loads of lumpy, one-of-a-kind character. In that moment, my cousin's image began to unravel all at once, like an unclenched ball of yarn. Slipstitch the folds and then use the same strand of yarn to backstitch the loops. The current line of mallets is wound using either wool-based and nylon based yarns or two types of wool yarn. A fascinating mix of braids, tassels, chenilles and decorative trimmings in delicate silken yarn complements the entire package. There were plush fleece coats, including one in soda-pop grape, and cute leather tams crudely stitched with black yarn. It also had an improved set-tip to start the yarn or thread, an adjustable jack-frame for knitting loose or tight, and Crane's take-up device. One room we were decorating, I put copper tacks all over the wall, and I connected them with colored yarn. Sew a decorative button or bead on one end and create a thread loop covered with yarn buttonhole stitches on the opposite end. The process is complex, for the yarn has to be dyed as many times by tying a rubber band around areas that ought to resist the dye. I mentioned this yarn to a non-knitter, who's thoughts on the subject were, what a waste of a perfectly good lobster pot. This frame has a leather mat and hanging strap, and is fringed with scrap yarn. I did come back with some sock yarn and another book of sock patterns, though, and an Addi Turbo needle. I thought it would be cool to ask her more about the yarn bombing phenomenon and how it all started for her. Easily removable, yarn bombing focuses less on making a permanent statement and more on lending a sense of warmth to colder spaces. Neil is now looking for further donations of wool for a Christmas yarn bombing event at Paignton Zoo. And we'll have a preview of this month's Art Week, complete with Shayna's crash course in yarn bombing. Catrin had heard about urban yarn bombing in England and wanted to do something similar in Pontypridd. Show More Sentences In her latest feat, Olek took yarn bombing on a whole new track when she covered an entire locomotive with crochet in just two days. But how do you take a street art such as yarn bombing and bring it indoors? It rained off and on all day, and we were quite content to yarn with Jean Craigie, Ernie Smith, Stan Ombler and the rest of the hut occupants. And that's precisely the reason old people love to yarn and natter with youngsters. About 2 days ago Lawerence Chaytor, Bunny Young, George Hampson, Mace and myself had a great yarn. But there's more to this attachment than a simple fondness for gossip or a good yarn. So she came around and I got to work on the iPod as we had a bit of a yarn. This place is as bad as the base for news. Just as I wrote that, he came in and had a yarn. The detective yarn is one of the most formally defined modes of storytelling. There is also a deep fascination with texture from the fine silk cotton yarn, to the merino and the matted felt coats she constructs. I have crewel yarn and silk thread, and I'm determined to make something of it. Many of the second and third generation of settlers grew flax and spun and wove yarn in addition to tending a small farm. Older women continue to weave long, colorful sashes with red wool yarn on a white cotton background. My mother sewed most of my clothes as a child, so I have an affinity for patterns, cloth, thread and yarn. The cotton gets grown in India, then spun into yarn somewhere else, then dyed, knit, cut and sewn all in different countries. The floor was littered with baskets of differently-colored yarn and thread, and a few spinning wheels stood near the far end of the chamber. In another building, not far from where the sewing is taking place, cotton is spun into yarn and turned into a material. The first water-powered cotton spinning mills typically expanded production by putting out yarn to be woven by members of farming families. Zhang created a steelworks at Wuhan, textile mills, and factories producing cement, glass, paper, cotton yarn and cloth, and leather goods. Typically, American stocking factories spun their own wool into yarn or thread. Show More Sentences The silk yarn produced from these equipment can be used as wrap and is a substitute for the imported tasar one. I don't have any DK weight yarn for the Ursule hat, but I have worsted, so I will be trying a test run of the Shining Star hat. The desk surface still held stacks of books, papers, magazines, a basket of yarn and knitting needles, and a half-finished piece of needlework. The yarn would usually be mordanted with oxalic acid from wood sorrel, iron, or even an alkaline solution made from stale urine. It's infuriating to knit 160 stitches and then find you have 12 stitches to go to finish the row and about 2 inches of yarn left. The yarn and legs of the stockings were furnished by the mill and footed hose and waste material returned. The woven threads were wound on a device called a Niddy Noddy or more simply a yarn winder. At China's Hang Zhou Silk Factory, the yarn is reeled, graded, color coded by a temporary dye, twisted, washed and wound into skeins. The whorl is located at the bottom of the shaft and there is either a hook or a notch at the top of the shaft to catch the yarn. And he loved to tell the yarn about how he and a pal pilfered a barrel of whiskey out from under the noses of the police during Prohibition. I knit with acrylic yarn all of the time, and there are some yarns that I really like. Barrie Rutter's direction is plain but satisfying and his production intimate and robust, never losing sight of the fact that it is spinning a yarn. The craft of the carpetmaker includes traditional professional skills, such as wool processing, gathering of natural vegetable, animal or mineral dyes and yarn making. As the name suggests, a yarn winder is a device used to wind balls of yarn. Using yarn and needle, my mother would then transfer that highly geometric pattern to cloth, creating a wall hanging, a pillow cover, or some other decorative article. Whenever she pulls it out, Quechua women descend on Muller and her spindle, each taking turns showing her how to properly transform her pile of fleece into a ball of yarn. She picks up the offending ball of too-tight yarn and waves it accusingly. Women habitually baked bread, churned butter, brewed beer, sewed clothes, knitted stockings, spun yarn, and even sometimes milled flour and wove cloth. Come to think of it, I would also avoid acrylic for a bedspread, after all, all that work means heirloom and it should had been done in a much better yarn. Chinese hand-loom weavers often used strong machine-made yarn for the warp and home-spun for the weft, a practice typical of the early stages of industrialization. Show More Sentences Indeed, even coastal fisheries were severely hampered after 1941 by mounting shortages of cotton yarn, ramie, Manila hemp, and, most importantly, petroleum. 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. It's cool, in a toned-down bowling-shirt sort of way, but its polyester yarn is spun soft and airy, and subtle mesh vents in the back evacuate excess body heat. There are finer counts of yarn, so garments are less inclined to pill. Beside the desk was a basket full of knitting needles and yarn. This enables the dyer to create hanks of yarn that aren't too tightly wound together, ensuring that the dye bath can penetrate all of the fibres and preventing streaking. It's definitely a worsted weight yarn, but I can't be entirely sure. I'd use a DK weight yarn, though, because worsted might get a bit heavy. There was a guy in there showing a girl how to spin yarn using a spindle. Raw flax and wool was spun into yarn, this was then dyed or bleached, woven into cloth and then cut and sewn into the garments their families needed. Ann Kemp left Lancashire in the mid-1980s to farm on Islay, hand shearing her own rare breed sheep, spinning their wool into yarn, dyeing it with natural dyes and knitting it. There was a curtain of blue beads and green and blue shells threaded with shimmering silver yarn, turning the doorway into a magical entrance to a seascape. The cotton would be cleaned and then spun into yarn or thread. It is made from silk or cotton yarn and is woven using a wooden loom. The gold-coloured fibre is spun into a breath-taking range of textured yarn and woven into a spectrum of colourful floor coverings, wall hangings and artifacts. As all wine drinkers know, the Australian wine story is a great yarn. 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. The interview has come to a close yet Clarke seems quite content to yarn. Tolstoy, to name one artist, managed to spin a decent yarn or two around the travails of the extravagantly wealthy. The products include copper rods, sugar, electrical cables, tobacco, fresh flowers, cotton lint, cotton yarn, fresh vegetables, gemstones and gasoil. Show More Sentences He took the yarn and looped it around each of the tacks in order. Many of us strike a happy medium, leaving enough wiggle room with reality to spin a good yarn. He could easily be stringing them a yarn, hoping to save his own neck. The new yarn is fastened to the old thrum, the ends being united. It had become a familiar yarn, Brad playing on his own vanity to tease out frustrations in his military life. Groups of cheerful girls carrying heavy bundles of yarn and cloth move from one building to another, and vehicles are constantly at the ready, to transport the finished goods. So we learned about it when Republicans raised it, and it became the latest ball of yarn for the news media. Each tufted piece is made on an upright frame, using a compressor powered air gun, which shoots the yarn into a canvas backing fabric and creates a heavy, evenly piled rug. I wanted as much of the tweediness as I could manage, and a fairly homogeneous color, so I plied two bobbins of two-ply yarn and then plied the results together. With remainder of yarn, twist a cord or crochet a chain cord. The move to apply quotas to men's and boys' cotton T-shirts and underwear, mid-shirts, trousers, blouses and comb cotton yarn is welcome news to the industry. He took pride in whatever he participated in, whether skipping a team for a curling bonspiel or spinning a yarn with his buddies at the coffee club. The pattern called for yards of yarn to be knit and slip-stitched into place to form a beautiful design detail around a shaped bodice and neckline. When the slubbing is attenuated during yarn manufacture, a very even blend of dyed and undyed fibre is produced and by this means, if black has been used, a grey yarn results. No distinction can be made between unsized yarn and sized yarn, for the unsized yarn when converted into sized yarn does not lose its character as yarn. In other words, he took substantial liberties with the facts to improve the yarn. After a few more tries over the next few days, I admitted defeat and tossed the yarn, needles and my knitting confidence to the back of the closet. It is a beautifully variegated yarn, and was very nice to work with. Like most of Sandback's work, untitled, it dates from 1977 and uses seven strands of Venetian red knitting yarn strung taut from ceiling to floor. They had to follow their yarn through the family room, which looked like a giant spiderweb of yarn, until they located the prize tied to the other end of their spool. Show More Sentences Most early weavers spun their own yarn and made their own dyes. I feel so let down I have been spun a yarn from start to finish. Curtis spins a yarn that is ultimately hopeful, even heroic. A cracker bus driver refuses to let him aboard, and our hero coolly spins a yarn about being a wounded veteran of the Normandy landings which shames the man into submission. A serimeter is a machine used for breaking yarn in order to determine its strength and elongation. I taught my students how In thread the needle, a basic running stitch and a backstitch, and how to tie off to change yarn. The twist of the yarn is opposite to that of the strand, and that in turn is opposite to that of the rope. Combed singles yarn sailcloth in high counts is used for spinnaker and head sails. Cotton is grown throughout the world, harvested, ginned, and prepared for yarn spinning. The most common plant fiber is cotton, which is typically spun into fine yarn for mechanical weaving or knitting into cloth. Well-meaning, well-acted coming-of-age yarn about a British nerd whose bar mitzvah coincides with the 1966 World Cup final. For a face, cut out a circle from cardstock Glue on yarn for fur, pompom eyes with felt pupils, a balloon nose, and a rickrack mouth. Or check out the sale bins at craft stores for yarn, rickrack, ball fringe and other inexpensive ribbon alternatives. Or check out the sales bins at craft stores for yarn, rickrack, ball fringe and other inexpensive ribbon alternatives. Leonardo da Vinci drew a picture of the flyer, which twists the yarn before winding it onto the spindle. Despite the stilted dialogue and a generous grating of cheesiness, Catherine Hardwicke's film is a sprightly romantic yarn. The spun yarn was then wound onto the spindle by moving it so as to form a right angle with the spindle. A spinning wheel is a device for spinning thread or yarn from natural or synthetic fibres. These forces increase with the nanofiber yarn being twisted during the electrospinning process. Warp and weft are terms for the two basic components used in weaving to turn thread or yarn into fabric. Show More Sentences Rustic-type yarn styles include marls, stipples, tweeds, chunky and felted. Whether your medium is yarn, thread or anything, this program is for social stitchery. Cloque, bubble jacquard and unusual yarn dimensions add subtle shimmer as well as texture in CHF's Peri Homeworks Collection. Wool with a break near one end of the staple or the other will create annoying noils and slubs in the yarn. The textile industry is primarily concerned with the design and production of yarn, cloth, clothing, and their distribution. The spinning frame is an Industrial Revolution invention for spinning thread or yarn from fibres such as wool or cotton in a mechanized way. The city has since emerged as India's largest manufacturer of suitings, fabrics and yarn. In order to avoid the influence of yarn unbandage from the bobbin, the branch was tensed with 4 weights of mass. I explained that, among other things, Bitensky was one of the all-time great hagglers when it came to buying yarn. Oji Fiber, an Oji paper group company, Japan, has developed hybrid yarn, incorporating paper fiber with natural and synthetic fiber. Spread Tow is a production method where the yarn are spread into thin tapes, and then the tapes are woven as warp and weft. But they need donations of double knitting or Arran yarn, and help from knitters to produce squares to be sewn together into throws and quilts. Colors applied to this yarn are noted for being more brilliant than colors applied to softer yarn. Hosiery garments are the product of hosiery fabric produced from hosiery yarn. They planned to manufacture cloth for sale, with yarn to be spun on spinning wheels, jennies, and frames, using water power. By the 18th century the Navajo had begun to import yarn with their favorite color, Bayeta red. A bobbin is a spindle or cylinder, with or without flanges, on which wire, yarn, thread or film is wound. Some of these structures still exist as listed buildings, although the large scale production of yarn and textile has now ceased. Wool was taken to mills where it was turned into yarn from which people in their homes knitted clothing, including hats and socks. The silk fabric is soaked in extremely cold water and bleached before dyeing to remove the natural yellow coloring of Thai silk yarn. Show More Sentences One day Ox-head came up to us during smoko to have a yarn and to help himself to some lollies another bloke, Seth, had bought. Suppose we wish to make a pointed cap, such as used to be known as a toboggan cap, from yarn or worsted. Here, though, he's a ponytailed bad-ass who incurs the wrath of Sly Stallone's hitman in a violent action yarn. Some materials become invaluable in teaching the visually impaired such as glue sticks, air-dry clay, and wax-covered yarn sticks. It supplies yarn to all Brintons factories except those in Australia and uses 18 per cent of the British wool clip. Yobbos Do Yoga is a fun filled story which mocks stereotypes and cleverly incorporates many traditional yoga asanas in a rollicking good yarn. Lace is a delicate fabric made of yarn or thread in an open weblike pattern, made by machine or by hand. By 1969, enough qiviut had been converted to yarn to put it into production. To get a firm cop bottom, the minder would whip the first few layers of yarn. Potash pits were once used in England to produce potash that was used in making soap for the preparation of wool for yarn production. An engineered duvet cover, inspired by a man's handkerchief, uses a marled yarn and then overdyes the fabric for a saturated, shimmering look. At the time when these inventions were made the flax trade was on the point of expiring, the spinners being unable to produce yarn to a profit. Big Bucks'' overextends its invitation, but it offers something of an entertaining yarn. Shuttles are thrown or passed back and forth through the shed, between the yarn threads of the warp in order to weave in the weft. The fiber is most often spun into yarn or thread and used to make a soft, breathable textile. Persian Sassanid coins emerged as a means of currency, just as valuable as silk yarn and textiles. A shuttle is a tool designed to neatly and compactly store a holder that carries the thread of the weft yarn while weaving with a loom. This shows how the yarn looks when different kinds of cloths are kept under USB microscope. Generated RVEs are meshed with voxels to avoid meshing troubles in resin rich pockets between yarns or close to yarn crossings. The yarn is wrapped snugly around a ruler and the number of wraps that fit in an inch are counted. Show More Sentences And a yarn is not story to be handed on as authentic and vouched-for story that attestedly is true. Roman artisans began to replace yarn with valuable plain silk cloths from China and the Silla Kingdom in Gyeongju, Korea. For a single ply yarn, the direction of the final twist is the same as its original twist. More rarely, yarn may be spun from camel, yak, possum, musk ox, cat, dog, wolf, rabbit, or buffalo hair, and even turkey or ostrich feathers. The spinning jenny succeeded because it held more than one ball of yarn, making more yarn in a shorter time and reducing the overall cost. The price of yarn fell, angering the large spinning community in Blackburn. It took three carders to provide the roving for one spinner, and up to three spinners to provide the yarn for one weaver. It is often used by European sailcloth manufacturers, is available in a wider variety of yarn sizes than Spectra, and is growing in popularity. The company uses the yarn to make deodorized, antibacterial socks, towels and bedclothes. The jenny was initially welcomed by the hand spinners, but when the price of yarn fell the mood changed. I notice the media yarn spinners haven't used that appropriate descriptive adjective when reporting on the histrionics of certain politicians. During the Middle Ages, Tetbury became an important market for Cotswold wool and yarn. The spinning jenny was confined to producing cotton weft, it was unable to produce yarn of sufficient quality for the warp. Model of a patent machine for winding yarn from the hank, upon the shuttlecope or pern. The number of yarn breakages was dependent on the quality of the roving, and quality cotton led to fewer breakages. The yarn could be bulked out by pressing in short fibres that would have been consider too short to spin if cotton. This could be used with the top faller wire to guide the yarn to the correct place on the cop. It was common for families in various parts of the world to spin yarn, weave cloth and make their own clothing. The mule produced strong, thin yarn, suitable for any kind of textile, warp or weft. Development over the next century and a half led to an automatic mule and to finer and stronger yarn. Show More Sentences They lent livestock and grazing land to one another and worked together to spin yarn, sew quilts, and shuck corn. The jenny produced a lightly twisted yarn only suitable for weft, not warp. The women would then spin these rough rovings into yarn wound on a spindle. The spinning mule spins textile fibres into yarn by an intermittent process. There was a strong demand for the yarn which Crompton was making at Hall i' th' Wood but he lacked the means to take out a patent. Being run on water power, it produced stronger and harder yarn than the then famous 'Spinning Jenny', thus, greatly ushering the factory system. Black Leicester Longwool DK is a worsted spun yarn which enhances its lustre, resulting in a lovely dark grey shade with a hint of brown. When joining in a new ball of yarn, do so on the g st areas, as it's much easier to darn in the ends here. The yarn can be doubled and processed into thread, or prepared for weaving. Perhaps that's why Goldfarb didn't comment any further on his yarn. These carding mills produced yarn particularly for the Welsh flannel industry. The tighter the tension band is, the more pull on the yarn, because the more friction the bobbin has to overcome to turn in sync with the flyer. When the spinner feeds the yarn onto the bobbin, the drag on the flyer slows it and thus the yarn winds on. While the spinner is making new yarn, the bobbin and the flyer turn in unison, driven by the single drive band. The frame employed the draw rollers invented by Lewis Paul to stretch, or attenuate, the yarn. Primary air entanglement is applied to give the yarn better cohesion and thus achieve a smoother, quieter thread path over the godets. Use a paper fastener to connect the creamer container to the plastic card through the hole opposite the yarn. The tension band adds an adjustable amount of drag to the bobbin and thereby increases the yarn take up force. Thus both the flyer and bobbin rotate to twist the yarn, and the difference in speed continually winds the yarn onto the bobbin. The yarn is spun at an angle off the tip of the spindle, and is then stored on the spindle. Show More Sentences At Windsor, the princesses staged pantomimes at Christmas in aid of the Queen's Wool Fund, which bought yarn to knit into military garments. With both, the spinning must stop in order to wind the yarn onto the spindle. The charkha works similarly to the great wheel, with a drive wheel being turned by hand, while the yarn is spun off the tip of the spindle. It has also been found that iron and alum mordants contribute to the color stability of wool yarn stained by laurel extract. With rotor spinning, the fibers in the roving are separated, thus opened, and then wrapped and twisted as the yarn is drawn out of the rotor cup. Using two sets of rollers that travelled at different speeds, yarn could be twisted and spun quickly and efficiently. Thread is a type of yarn intended for sewing by hand or machine. From a scrunchie hat and beaded bag to a poncho and tea cozy, ONE-SKEIN WONDERS is packed with excellent, easy projects which rely on a minimum of yarn for completion. In contrast, the Teeswater DK is a worsted knitting yarn from the Teeswater breed of sheep, which produces wool that is long, lustrous, wavy and fine. The fabrics include woven and unwoven standard carbon fibre, glass-fibre, aramid and high-density polypropylene fibre rolls, as well as yarn and tow. The fabrics include woven and unwoven standard carbon fiber, glass-fiber, aramid and high-density polypropylene fiber rolls, as well as yarn and tow. Knitting, looping, and crocheting involve interlacing loops of yarn, which are formed either on a knitting needle, needle, or on a crochet hook, together in a line. Opposition to the machine caused Hargreaves to leave for Nottingham, where the cotton hosiery industry benefited from the increased provision of suitable yarn. There are several thicknesses of craft yarn, also referred to as weight. As well as Dunster Castle, Dunster's other attractions include a priory, dovecote, yarn market, inn, packhorse bridge, mill and a stop on the West Somerset Railway. In Sims' latest yarn, he claims that, more than two years ago, he was given material from the crashed UFO by someone at a West Coast UFO kookfest. Leave the yarn in the dye overnight so the color soaks through. Based on a true story, this sweet and exciting animal yarn is full of real characters, not anthropomorphized ones, who interact and care about one another. Cotton also is used to make yarn used in crochet and knitting. Principal imports in the early 20th century included cotton and silk goods, coal, iron and steel, petroleum, timber, raw wool, cotton yarn and cork. Show More Sentences One or more hosiery yarn is used to make knitted or hosiery fabric, and garments produced out of this are generally referred to as hosiery garments. This process is the unwinding of the several turns of the yarn, extending from the top of the cop in process of formation to the summit of the spindle. As the mule spindle travels on its carriage, the roving which it spins is fed to it through rollers geared to revolve at different speeds to draw out the yarn. She had changed her auburn hair. Instead of wearing it in a billowing puff over her brow, she had gathered it into a ponytail, secured with a length of yellow yarn. Slater constructed and operated machines for producing yarn. However, improvements in spinning technology during the Industrial Revolution created cotton yarn of sufficient strength to be used in mechanized weaving. In a voxel mesh, the boundary between the matrix element set and the yarn element set is a patch of rectangular facets that are parallel to one of the RVE faces. Very simple looms use a spiral warp, in which the warp is made up of a single, very long yarn wound in a spiral pattern around a pair of sticks or beams. But there are other, lesser-told tales about Bob Dylan at the Piping Centre, Scarlett Johanssen in the Panopticon and an unlikely yarn about Russ Abbott in the east end. A wheel was rapidly turned as the frame was pushed back, and the spindles rotated, twisting the rovings into yarn and collecting it on the spindles. Businessmen such as Richard Arkwright employed inventors to find solutions that would increase the amount of yarn spun, then took out the relevant patents. In 1760 England, yarn production from wool, flax and cotton was still a cottage industry in which fibres were carded and spun by hand using a spinning wheel. The invention by John Kay of the flying shuttle made the loom twice as productive, causing the demand for cotton yarn to vastly exceed what traditional spinners could supply. As used in spinning, weaving, knitting, sewing, or lacemaking, the bobbin provides temporary or permanent storage for yarn and may be made of plastic, metal, bone, or wood. Bobbin lacemaking is a handcraft which requires the winding of yarn onto a temporary storage spindle made of wood, previously bone, often turned on a lathe. There's the barman at a Prohibition speakeasy easing the passage of bad booze across jaded palettes with the help of a sugar cube soaked on Angostura bitters yarn. While he was a boy he lost his father and had to contribute to the family resources by spinning yarn, learning to spin on James Hargreaves's spinning jenny. It sped up production, as one needn't stop spinning to wind up the yarn. These preparatory processes completed the yarn was woven on a loom. To obtain the extra strength needed, the yarn was sized on a sizer. Show More Sentences A weaving mill needed yarn suitable for the warp and the weft. The woven fabric portion of the textile industry grew out of the industrial revolution in the 18th century as mass production of yarn and cloth became a mainstream industry. The main steps in the production of cloth are producing the fibre, preparing it, converting it to yarn, converting yarn to cloth, and then finishing the cloth. The twist direction of yarn can affect the final properties of the fabric, and combined use of the two twist directions can nullify skewing in knitted fabric. The unique, abstract Coloratura is evocative of a watercolor painting and uses a tapestry construction to feature four yarn colors that create distinctive areas. Braiding with rubberbands is quicker than sewing in yarn or thread but it is not acceptable for high-level competition, and it will break off hairs and damage the mane. Other natural fibers that can be used for yarn include linen and cotton. In addition, cotton yarn, raw cotton and bread wheat were sold. A curious web, whose yarn she threw in with a golden shittle. That Smasher, he said, and forced laugh. My word he can spin a yarn! She glanced towards him, her face halved by the lamplight. Just skiting, you reckon? This drag is the force which winds new yarn onto the bobbin. Jackboots On Whitehall Directors Edward and Rory McHenry imagine a different outcome to the Second World War in this satirical yarn made with puppets a la Team America. Carpets, rugs, velvet, velour, and velveteen are made by interlacing a secondary yarn through woven cloth, creating a tufted layer known as a nap or pile. The book is meant for textile technologists in industrial and academic research, chemical and synthetic fiber suppliers, and yarn and fabric manufacturers. His wife was darning a sock, running a needle and yarn across and back, over and under, up and down, gradually filling in the big spud-hole in her husband's sock. I love knitting motif swatches. They're small and quick to make, allowing you to experiment with new stitch patterns and techniques without a big commitment in time and yarn. Examples from Classical Literature I wrote the yarn up in my junior year for an English comp., and tacked on the ghost feature as a sort of added climax. A tall, double-jointed farm-hand came blustering into the room, his face covered with a yarn comforter. There was a cockney in that yarn, too, and a South Sea woman and a schooner. It gives the carder a chance to keep up with the spinning, and gives the Spinner a chance to make a better quality of yarn. Various species of Lecanora, particularly L. tartarea, known as cudbear, are used in dyeing woollen yarn. However in weaving dhotiyans and sadis from handspun as well as mill-made yarn the flyshuttle is very handy. The yarn from the ring frame, or mule, is wound in a large cop, or on a bobbin. Leaving Ike on the Bridgeport for a yarn with his old friend, we pushed off in the launch for Chelan. It is superstition to say that the yarn spun on the charkha cannot be strong and even. Then gapper told Tom Cush that now he was a sailor he ought to spin us a yarn. Find more words! 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