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  2. Thread (yarn) - Wikipedia

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    A spool of thread may be described in terms of its "single's equivalent". This is the cotton count size of the thread divided by the number of plies which make it up. A spool of 30/3 thread has a single's equivalent of 10, because a single strand or ply of that thread has a cotton count size of 10.

  3. Muslin - Wikipedia

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    In this text, broad and smooth cotton cloth is referred to as Monachi and the finest cotton cloth is called Gangetic. A kingdom called 'Ruhma' is found in the Sulaiman al-Tajir written by the 9th century Arab merchant Sulaiman, where fine cotton fabrics was produced. There were cotton fabrics so fine and delicate that a single piece of cloth ...

  4. List of English words of Old English origin - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of English words inherited and derived directly from the Old English stage of the language. This list also includes neologisms formed from Old English roots and/or particles in later forms of English, and words borrowed into other languages (e.g. French, Anglo-French, etc.) then borrowed back into English (e.g. bateau, chiffon, gourmet, nordic, etc.).

  5. Anglo-Saxon Cotton world map - Wikipedia

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  6. Fishing net - Wikipedia

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    Fishing nets are usually meshes formed by knotting a relatively thin thread. Early nets were woven from grasses, flaxes and other fibrous plant material. Later cotton was used. Modern nets are usually made of artificial polyamides like nylon, although nets of organic polyamides such as wool or silk thread were common until recently and are ...

  7. Loom - Wikipedia

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    The wide, flat stick is a sword batten; it is inserted lengthwise into each shed, and used to clear the shed, get it wide open and smooth, and to batten. [6] Weaving a silk rebozo with a dyed-warp pattern on a backstrap loom, Taller Escuela de Rebocería in Santa María del Río, San Luis Potosí , Mexico.

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  9. Warp and weft - Wikipedia

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    In the terminology of weaving, each warp thread is called a warp end; a pick is a single weft thread that crosses the warp thread (synonymous terms are fill yarn and filling yarn). [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In the 18th century, the Industrial Revolution facilitated the industrialisation of the production of textile fabrics with the "picking stick" [ 4 ] and ...