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  2. Dye lot - Wikipedia

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    A dye lot marking from a yarn label. The dye lot is the large stamped number at top. Other information such as color code has been preprinted in smaller digits. A dye lot is a record taken during the dyeing of yarn to identify yarn that received its coloration in the same vat at the same time. Yarn manufacturers assign each lot a unique ...

  3. Tracking number - Wikipedia

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    Tracking numbers are useful for knowing the location of time sensitive deliveries. It is a unique ID number or code assigned to a package or parcel. The tracking number is typically printed on the shipping label as a bar code that can be scanned by anyone with a bar code reader or smartphone. In the United States, some of the carriers using ...

  4. DMC (company) - Wikipedia

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    The company also continued printing fabrics and was the first company to use a machine capable of printing 12 colors. [2] Frédéric-Engel Dollfus (1818–1883), a follower of Saint-Simon, joined DMC as an associate in 1843. [3]

  5. Thread (yarn) - Wikipedia

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    A Hong Kong ticket number, when present, is a cotton count number without the slash and with the final number always indicating the number of plies if more than one. A Hong Kong ticket number of 1002 is made of two plies of size 100 thread; a number of 100 is made of a single ply of size 100 thread; a size 503 is made of three plies of size 50 ...

  6. Yarn - Wikipedia

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    Yarn comes in many colors. Yarn may be used undyed, or may be coloured with natural or artificial dyes. Most yarns have a single uniform hue, but there is also a wide selection of variegated yarns: Heathered or tweed: yarn with flecks of different coloured fibre; Ombré: variegated yarn with light and dark shades of a single hue

  7. Embroidery thread - Wikipedia

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    Embroidery floss or stranded cotton is a loosely twisted, slightly glossy 6-strand thread, usually of cotton but also manufactured in silk, linen, and rayon.Cotton floss is the standard thread for cross-stitch, and is suitable for most embroidery excluding robust canvas embroidery.

  8. Yarn weight - Wikipedia

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    For better accuracy, measure the wraps at the center of your yarn sample. The number of wraps will act as a gauge to assess the thickness of unmarked yarn; for example 12 wraps per inch is 12 WPI, and is used to calculate how much yarn is required for various articles, [3] so that 12 is equivalent to 8 ply (worsted weight, medium weight) yarn. [3]

  9. 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 ...