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2. Lion Brand Yarns - Wikipedia

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   The Lion Brand Yarn Studio was a retail store located at 34 West 15th Street in Manhattan, which opened in 2008. It sold yarn, provided knitting and crochet classes, [6] and offered custom knitting and crochet services. The Studio closed in March 2020.

3. Leewards Creative Crafts - Wikipedia

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   This page was last edited on 11 September 2024, at 01:42 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.

4. Yarn - Wikipedia

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   Yarn is selected for different textiles based on the characteristics of the yarn fibres, such as warmth (wool), light weight (cotton or rayon), durability (nylon is added to sock yarn, for example), or softness (cashmere, alpaca). Yarn is composed of twisted strands of fiber, which are known as plies when grouped together. [19]

5. Novelty yarns - Wikipedia

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   Bouclé, or looped, yarns are created by loosely looping an effect yarn around a base yarn. They can be made of any type of fiber and are usually composed of three plies, or strands, wrapped around each other. The texture is created by spinning one of the three plies more loosely than the other two.

6. Hank (unit of measure) - Wikipedia

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   One source identifies a skein of stranded cotton as being 8.25 yards (7.54 m), of tapestry wool as being 10 yards (9.1 m), and crewel wool as being 33 yards (30 m). [ 1 ] In yarns for handcrafts such as knitting or crochet , hanks are not a fixed length but are sold in units by weight, most commonly 50 grams (2 oz).

7. Units of textile measurement - Wikipedia

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   In the United States cotton counts between 1 and 20 are referred to as coarse counts. [5] NeK or NeW (Worsted Count): The number of 560 yd lengths per 1 lb of yarn. NeK is an indirect measure of linear density. [5] NeK is also referred to as the spinning count. NeL or Lea (Linen Count): The number of 300 yd lengths per 1 lb of yarn. NeL is an ...