Mercerization is a treatment for cotton fabric and thread that gives fabric or yarns a lustrous appearance and strengthens them.
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Bobbin lacemaking is a handcraft which requires the winding of yarn onto a temporary storage spindle made of wood, previously bone, often turned on a lathe.
To measure the fineness of sheep wool fiber before microscopes and lasers were so used, English wool handlers in the city of Bradford described wool by estimating (with experienced eyes) how many 560-yard hanks of single strand yarn could be made by a good spinner from a pound of "top." (Top is cleaned combed wool with the fibers all parallel) The finer the average diameter of a single wool fiber, the more hanks could be spun.
The game's name is a play on words in reference to "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", with the game revolving around Bubsy defending the planet's supply of yarnballs from alien invaders.
Chenille fabric, a type of fabric (either a type of cored yarn or the fabric made from it)
In 1899 it was acquired by New England Cotton Yarn Company, along with the Nemasket Mills at East Taunton.
The TGWU called on dockers in Stornoway, also TGWU members to refuse to handle the yarn imported to the island by the producers.
When the Treaty of Nanking opened up China to British traders, Sassoon developed his textile operations into a profitable triangular trade: Indian yarn and opium were carried to China, where he bought goods which were sold in Britain, from where he obtained Lancashire cotton products.
Cotton was the chief crop of the regions of southern Gujarat, Khandesh and Berar while cotton yarn and cloth was exported from Bharoch and incense and perfumes from the ports of Thana and Saimur.
Another letter, from Noro's son and operations manager Takuo Noro, on the European handcraft yarn distributor's website, gives details of the distances of their main site and dye house from the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant, as well as the ports their company uses to import raw goods and export products.
His father moved to the branch of a German yarn firm in Little Germany, Bradford, where there was a substantial German community.
He was born John Greenhalgh Hilton in the Great Lever area of Bolton, Lancashire, the son of George Hilton, a cotton yarn twister.
--> Unusually, that year Klassen was one of five recipients of a Caldecott Honor, as the illustrator of Extra Yarn by Mac Barnett.
It is not known whether Viiding intended to develop a second poetic voice in addition to that of Jüri Üdi, or that he simply realized that the Soviet era of ideological symbols—as described in his "Jüri’s Yarn"—was coming to an end and the actor Jüri Üdi could drop the mask to reveal Juhan Viiding’s true literary face.
Formerly the balls were made of raupo and the cords of flax but today they tend to be made of plastic shopping-bag material and yarn.
He releases a puma inside the mall to catch the rat, but Bart and Milhouse use a ball of yarn to distract the puma and escape.
The name "Mount Holly" was used in recognition of the famed yarn made at a spinning mill in Mount Holly, New Jersey.
In an episode of the murder mystery yarn Murder She Wrote entitled Death n' Denial, sleuth Jessica Fletcher is coerced into eating a full serving mulukhiyah after posing as the victim's mother in order to suss out a clue.
Eisaku Noro Company, a Japanese manufacturer of color-transitioning yarn
In 1899, this mill was acquired by New England Cotton Yarn Company, which also included the Cohannet Mills in Taunton, and several other mills in Fall River and New Bedford.
Marigold (Voiced by Alisa Walton) A kindhearted doll with orange yarn like hair in pigtails.
A Capraesque yarn of midlife crisis, romance and spirituality told by a Chinese immigrant banker residing in suburban New York, who nearly destroys his marriage and finds salvation in the words and deeds of President Calvin Coolidge.
Darning: Sometimes called finishing needles, these are designed with a blunt tip and large eye making them similar to tapestry needles but longer; yarn darners are the heaviest sub-variety.
"A month or so later he heard a gold rush yarn from a Dawson mining man about a fellow who cremated his pal."
Businessmen such as Richard Arkwright employed inventors to find solutions that would increase the amount of yarn spun, then took out the relevant patents.
Bobbin, a cylinder or reel on which a quantity of thread, yarn or wire is wound for use in a particular machine or device
A contemporary reviewer, Will Cuppy of the Herald Tribune Books, said "The Greek Coffin Mystery is a lively and well-constructed yarn containing unusual setting, ingenuity of plot, a surprise solution and legitimate use of the analytico-deductive method." (Quoted in the first paperback edition, Pocket Books #179, in 1942.)
Steven H. Scheuer labelled the film as a "clunky yarn", (Scheuer, 1990: 869), while Mick Martin and Marsha Porter awarded the film their "turkey" rating, and criticised it for its "turgid direction and contrived plot", (Martin and Porter, 1996: 887).
One person was killed during violent protests by farmers and environmental activists opposed to the construction of a Thapar-DuPont Nylon 6,6 nylon cord yarn factory which they feared would pollute the state's extensive river system.