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2. Moire (fabric) - Wikipedia

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   Moire ribbons. Moire (/ ˈ m w ɑːr / or / ˈ m ɔːr /), less often moiré, is a textile with a wavy (watered) appearance produced mainly from silk, but also wool, cotton and rayon. The watered appearance is usually created by the finishing technique called calendering.

3. Quilting - Wikipedia

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   Machine quilting needles are very sharp in order to readily pierce layers of quilt and properly sew together the quilt top, batting and backing. Hand quilting needles are traditionally called betweens and are generally smaller and stronger than normal sewing needles. They have a very small eye which prevents any extra bump at the head of the ...

4. Textile - Wikipedia

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   In other cases, yarns are manipulated with different fabric manufacturing systems to produce various fabric constructions. The fibers are twisted or laid out to make a long, continuous strand of yarn. [9] Yarns are then used to make different kinds of fabric by weaving, knitting, crocheting, knotting, tatting, or braiding.

5. Tartan - Wikipedia

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   An offset, off-set, or unbalanced weave is one in which the pattern finishes at the edge in the middle of a pivot colour; this was typically done with pieces intended to be joined (e.g. for a belted plaid or a blanket) to make larger spans of cloth with the pattern continuing across the seam; [8] [64] if the tartan had a selvedge mark or ...

6. Crochet - Wikipedia

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   These patterns called for thicker threads and yarns than in earlier patterns and included variegated colors. The craft remained primarily a homemaker's art until the late 1960s and early 1970s, when the new generation picked up on crochet and popularized granny squares, a motif worked in the round and incorporating bright colors.

7. Twin-lead - Wikipedia

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   A 300-to-75 Ω balun, showing twin lead ribbon cable on the right hand side. Twin lead (in the specific sense of ribbon cable) is a form of parallel wire balanced transmission line. The separation between the two wires in twin-lead is small compared to the wavelength of the radio frequency (RF) signal carried on the wire.