Examples of yarn

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Instead, she draws these yarns unquestioningly into her own version of history.
The yarns are brought together by the activity of causal agents such as the shuttle, loom and weaver, and the end product is the cloth.
On the other hand, the extra cost was small for course yarns as low quality cotton could bear the strain.
The cloth, we may say, is fabricated out of the yarns.
Selection: designers select yarns, inspirational material, and old designs.
By the 1920s, weavers increasingly replaced locally spun cotton with imported yarns.
One hears many little interesting yarns of the party stay, some humorous, some sad.
He is full of yarns.
The yarns which emerged were less suited to automated processes in weaving so that power looms remained and the unions limited the number of these per operative.
Therefore, the female employers in the yarn-spinning workshop were selected as the study population.
There are two detrimental effects of the carding process that undermine yarn manufacture.
A different yarn or a small change to the design can make a garment impossible or much more time-consuming to knit.
The yarn is carried away by the women workers and hung outside for drying.
The previous evening, the yarn has been washed and is therefore ready for dyeing.
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