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    Yarn weight refers to the thickness of yarn used by knitters, weavers, crocheters and other fiber artists. Changing yarn weight or needle size can have a...
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    rags, Plying her needle and thread – Stitch! Stitch! Stitch! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch She sang 'The Song...
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    Knitting (section Needles)
    prior row and placed on the gaining needle so that the loops from the prior row can be pulled off the other needle without unraveling. Differences in yarn...
    87 KB (10,682 words) - 03:16, 22 May 2024
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    Pliers (redirect from Plier)
    would have required plier-like devices to handle hot materials in the process of smithing or casting. Development from wooden to bronze pliers would have...
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    Thomas Hood (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    rags, Plying her needle and thread-- Stitch! stitch! stitch! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch She sang the "Song...
    24 KB (3,289 words) - 05:47, 27 May 2024
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    20030196252, Sara Blakely, "Two-ply body-smoothing undergarment", issued 2003-10-23 Prevention Magazine Editors: The Doctors Book of Home Remedies, Thousands...
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  • the prince, plying her needle in embroidery. The moment she saw Khamba, handsome and shapely in physique, she gave her heart away to him. But on the part...
    32 KB (3,108 words) - 00:28, 6 June 2024
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    Yarn (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    Single ply yarns or using fibers like merino wool are known to pill more due to the fact that in the former, the single ply is not tight enough to securely...
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  • to describe both the specific type of textile, and the hooked needle used to produce it. In 1567, the tailor of Mary, Queen of Scots, Jehan de Compiegne...
    51 KB (6,201 words) - 01:16, 19 April 2024
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    districts, in the pursuit of their calling, and to put up for the night at farm-houses, – where, whilst plying their needles, they would entertain the company...
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  • constructed many cleverly contrived hiding-places for the persecuted priests. He could also ply the needle to make vestments and altar-cloths. In 1581, Father...
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    were members of the Second Baptist Church and William was a deacon there. [We meet to] ply our needles and fingers, to talk over the wrongs of our countrymen...
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    supporting role in The Getaway (1972) as a con man who tries to ply his trade on Carol McCoy (Ali MacGraw), and co-starred in The Panic in Needle Park (1971)...
    11 KB (1,209 words) - 09:09, 5 June 2024
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    in the throats of the sinkers while the needles rise to clear and the new loops are knocked over in-between them. In Raschel knitting, however, the fabric...
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  • Textile manufacturing by pre-industrial methods (category Articles to be expanded from February 2009)
    spindle. If the yarn was spun clockwise (which is called a "Z" twist ), to ply, the wheel must spin counter-clockwise (an "S" twist). This is the most common...
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  • sewed on buttons be expected to handle delicate instruments better than women who have plied embroidery needles, knitting needles and darning needs all their...
    297 KB (36,913 words) - 19:01, 5 June 2024
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    or more "plies" of fiber, and this information is often provided on thread packaging along with the finalized thread's weight, according to a particular...
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    Units of textile measurement (category Articles prone to spam from December 2016)
    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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    Bobbin lace (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    one of the two major categories of handmade laces, the other being needle lace, derived from earlier cutwork and reticella. A will of 1493 by the Milanese...
    25 KB (2,658 words) - 02:16, 17 April 2024
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    twisted together (plied). The strands are plied in the opposite direction to that of their twist, which adds torsional strength to the cord and keeps it...
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