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The denier is based on a natural reference: a single strand of silk is approximately one denier; a 9,000-metre strand of silk weighs about one gram. The term denier comes from the French denier, a coin of small value (worth 1 ⁄ 12 sou). Applied to yarn, a denier was held to be equal in weight to 1 ⁄ 24 ounce (1.2 g).
The fractional parts of an once had different names in Apothecary measure (used in medicine) and measure of precious metals, but the fractional ratios were themselves the same: 1 once was 8 drachme (Apothecary, c.f. English dram) or gros; 1 drachme/gros was 3 scruples (Apothecary, c.f. English scruple) or deniers, and 1 scruple/denier was 24 ...
French denier (penny), a type of medieval coin; Denier (unit), a unit of linear mass density of fibers; Denier, Pas-de-Calais, France, a commune; The Deniers, a 2008 book by Canadian environmentalist Lawrence Solomon
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The denier (/ d ə ˈ n ɪər /; Latin: denarius, Italian: denaro, Greek: δηνάριο, romanized: dinario; abbr. d. ) or penny was a medieval coin which takes its name from the Frankish coin first issued in the late seventh century; [ 1 ] in English it is sometimes referred to as a silver penny.
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Handspinners use the number of twists per inch often. Because the amount of twist defines a lot about a yarn, the number of twists per inch is an important measure to recreate a yarn.
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