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    Hand spinning (category History of the textile industry)
    these different yarns: short draw creates worsted yarns, and long draw creates woollen yarns. Often a spinner will spin using a combination of both techniques...
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    Spinner's weasel or clock reel is a mechanical yarn-measuring device consisting of a spoked wheel with gears attached to a pointer on a marked face (which...
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    Spinning wheel (category National symbols of India)
    basic spinning of yarn involves taking a clump of fibres and teasing a bit of them out, then twisting it into a basic string shape. The spinner continues pulling...
    41 KB (4,767 words) - 05:08, 6 April 2024
  • Plying (redirect from Plied yarn)
    Plied yarns will not unravel, break, or degrade as easily as unplied yarns. When enough twist is added to the plies to counter the initial twist of each...
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    water, and a mountain of glass and yellow rock. These reports were largely ignored because Bridger was a known "spinner of yarns". In 1859, a U.S. Army...
    163 KB (15,754 words) - 15:21, 22 May 2024
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    of the wool fiber is removed in the process of spinning the yarn while it is retained in woolens, and woollens are produced with short-staple yarns while...
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    from long stapled fibers. Short draw spun yarns are smooth, strong, sturdy yarns, and dense. Short draw spun yarns also tend to not be very elastic. These...
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    consisting of multiple yarns plied together producing a long, thin strand used in sewing or weaving, is measured in the same units as yarn. Fabric, material...
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  • Flax Roughers' and Yarn Spinners' Trade Union was a trade union representing lower-paid workers in the flax industry in the north of Ireland. The union...
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  • Crochet (section Yarn)
    yarns (more fibers); for example, thinner yarns require more twist than do thicker yarns to resist breaking under tension. The thickness of the yarn may...
    51 KB (6,201 words) - 01:16, 19 April 2024
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    supported by the hand of the spinner during drafting of cotton fibre, but during the adding of extra twist to stabilize the yarn, the spindle is dropped...
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    Swift (textiles) (redirect from Yarn swift)
    commonly used to ball a hank of yarn. An increasing percentage of yarn is sold in hank form, especially hand dyed or hand spun yarns, which necessitates balling...
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  • the yarn. From then on, the husband didn't dare complain. Wikisource has original text related to this article: The Lazy Spinner The Lazy Spinner The...
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    Spinning jenny (category History of the textile industry)
    increased yarn demand by the weavers by doubling their productivity, and now the spinning jenny could supply that demand by increasing the spinners' productivity...
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  • Twist per inch (category Yarn)
    with warp yarns, and highly twisted yarns are, in general, stronger. Warp yarns have to be stronger so that they can withstand the tension of the loom...
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    / Flax yarns Cotton Yarns Polyester Cotton Blended yarn Tencel 100% Polyester 100% Polyester / Cotton / Linen / Viscose Multi blend Dyed yarn (and fibre)...
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  • Kapotex Industries (category Textile companies of India)
    Kapotex Industries is a manufacturer of woolen & other blends of carpet yarns used in the production of machine-made, hand-made rugs & broadloom wall-to-wall...
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    sign of support for Blitzchung and the protests following the ban. In October 2019, an anonymous developer under the pseudonym "Spinner of Yarns" released...
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  • Chiengora (category Yarn)
    is yarn or wool spun from dog hair. The word is a portmanteau of chien (the French word for dog) and angora and was coined by an American spinner, Annette...
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    Ireland. To be Irish linen fabric, the yarns do not necessarily have to come from an Irish spinner; to be Irish linen (yarn), the flax fibre does not have to...
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