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  2. Yarn - Wikipedia

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    Novelty yarns or complex yarns are yarns with special (fancy) effects introduced during spinning or plying. One example is slub yarns, yarn with thick or thin sections alternating regularly or irregularly. In a similar manner, creating deliberate unevenness, additions or injections of neps or metallic or synthetic fibers (along with natural ...

  3. Knitting - Wikipedia

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    The opposing twist relieves some of the yarns' tendency to curl up and produces a thicker, balanced yarn. Plied yarns may themselves be plied together, producing cabled yarns or multi-stranded yarns. Sometimes, the yarns being plied are fed at different rates, so that one yarn loops around the other, as in bouclé. The single yarns may be dyed ...

  4. Sea silk - Wikipedia

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    Knitted glove made of sea silk, from Taranto, Italy, probably from the late 19th century Pinna nobilis shell and byssus The extreme fineness of the byssus thread. Sea silk is an extremely fine, rare, and valuable fabric that is made from the long silky filaments or byssus secreted by a gland in the foot of pen shells (in particular Pinna nobilis). [1]

  5. Eyelash yarn - Wikipedia

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    Drawbacks of eyelash yarns include poor stitch definition, because the hairs obscure the appearance of the base. They can also add bulk to a garment. They can also add bulk to a garment. Because of this, they are mostly used for accessories, such as scarves , or as garment trim .

  6. Units of textile measurement - Wikipedia

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    Textile fibers, threads, yarns and fabrics are measured in a multiplicity of units.. A fiber, a single filament of natural material, such as cotton, linen or wool, or artificial material such as nylon, polyester, metal or mineral fiber, or human-made cellulosic fibre like viscose, Modal, Lyocell or other rayon fiber is measured in terms of linear mass density, the weight of a given length of ...

  7. Warp and weft - Wikipedia

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    The vertical warp yarns are held stationary in tension on a loom (frame) while the horizontal weft (also called the woof) is drawn through (inserted over and under) the warp thread. [1] In the terminology of weaving, each warp thread is called a warp end (synonymous terms are fill yarn and filling yarn ); a pick is a single weft thread that ...

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