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- Shaggy dog story (redirect from Campfire yarn)the joke as a whole playing upon humans' search for meaning. The nature of their delivery is reflected in the English idiom spin a yarn, by way of analogy...20 KB (2,547 words) - 06:08, 20 May 2024
- A spinning wheel is a device for spinning thread or yarn from fibres. It was fundamental to the cotton textile industry prior to the Industrial Revolution...41 KB (4,767 words) - 05:08, 6 April 2024
- elementary particles Spin quantum number, a number which defines the value of a particle's spin Spinning (textiles), the creation of yarn or thread by twisting...6 KB (830 words) - 11:16, 3 April 2024
- sometimes referred to as "spinning," but most people equate spinning with spun yarn production. T-shirt yarn is a recycled yarn made from the same fabric...29 KB (3,373 words) - 04:39, 15 April 2024
- announced that Luke Mitchell would join the series in a recurring role with the potential to be expanded to a series regular. It was announced on March 8, 2024...24 KB (841 words) - 00:13, 24 May 2024
- Worsted (redirect from Worsted Knitting Yarn)Worsted (/ˈwɜːrstɪd/ or /ˈwʊstɪd/) is a high-quality type of wool yarn, the fabric made from this yarn, and a yarn weight category. The name derives from...12 KB (1,296 words) - 00:28, 10 March 2024
- Heather (fabric) (redirect from Melange (yarn))mixed fibers dyed before yarn spinning. Melange yarns yield economical blended textile materials. Marl or Marled yarn is a plied yarn. The doubling process...8 KB (809 words) - 16:22, 12 June 2023
- Spinning is an ancient textile art in which plant, animal or synthetic fibres are drawn out and twisted together to form yarn. For thousands of years...25 KB (3,116 words) - 00:06, 6 July 2023
- used to spin woollen yarns from noble fibres such as cashmere, ultra-fine merino and alpaca for the knitted textile market. The spinning mule spins textile...30 KB (4,316 words) - 03:36, 6 March 2024
- Open-end spinning is a technology for creating yarn without using a spindle. It was invented and developed in Czechoslovakia in Výzkumný ústav bavlnářský...8 KB (1,026 words) - 21:09, 27 October 2023
- Spinning is a twisting technique to form yarn from fibers. The fiber intended is drawn out, twisted, and wound onto a bobbin. A few popular fibers that...13 KB (1,443 words) - 05:43, 22 February 2024
- textiles, the first requirement is a source of fibre from which a yarn can be made, primarily by spinning. The yarn is processed by knitting or weaving...26 KB (3,617 words) - 00:59, 3 March 2024
- Spindle (textiles) (category Hand spinning tools)A spindle is a straight spike, usually made from wood, used for spinning, twisting fibers such as wool, flax, hemp, cotton into yarn. It is often weighted...16 KB (2,091 words) - 19:43, 20 January 2024
- Short draw (redirect from Short draw (spinning))Short draw is the spinning technique used to create worsted yarns. It is spun from combed roving, sliver or wool top – anything with the fibers all lined...5 KB (818 words) - 23:13, 22 April 2024
- Plying (redirect from Plied yarn)When the loop and the yarn are nearly fully plied together, a new loop of yarn is pulled through the initial loop, and spinning continues. This process...7 KB (1,058 words) - 18:51, 14 May 2024
- Cotton-spinning machinery is machines which process (or spin) prepared cotton roving into workable yarn or thread. Such machinery can be dated back centuries...12 KB (1,246 words) - 01:57, 7 August 2023
- shuttle (John Kay 1733) had increased yarn demand by the weavers by doubling their productivity, and now the spinning jenny could supply that demand by increasing...15 KB (1,817 words) - 05:07, 3 May 2024
- Australian Aboriginal English (redirect from Yarning)yarn", in reference to stories told while performing mundane tasks such as spinning yarn. In Aboriginal English, the word is used as a verb (yarning)...31 KB (3,349 words) - 10:43, 24 May 2024
- Paper yarn is the yarn made from paper strips chiefly with wood pulp cut into strips and then twisted to form a yarn. Germany invented Paper yarn in the...5 KB (522 words) - 16:58, 25 May 2024
- Warp and weft (redirect from Filling yarn)weaving to transform thread and yarn into textile fabrics. The vertical warp yarns are held stationary in tension on a loom (frame) while the horizontal...7 KB (797 words) - 04:13, 29 April 2024
- metaphor from spinning fibers into yarn or thread, as for example at a spinning wheel. spin a yarn (third-person singular simple present spins a yarn, present
- 28 Yarn 6022721911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 28 — Yarn YARN, the name given to any textile fibre when prepared by the process of spinning for
- in relation to Mr. Arkwright' s invention of an engine for spinning cotton, &c. into yarn; stating his reasons for applying to Parliament for an Act to
- removed in the process of spinning the yarn. In Tropical Worsteds this use of tightly spun straightened wool combined with a looser weave permits the free