Yarn

Examples

• When yarn is dyed, the coloring matter penetrates to every part of the fiber, and hence the patterns formed by the weaving together of well-dyed yarns are very fast to light and water. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• It was this that gave his yarn the name of water-twist. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• In spinning fine numbers of yarn, a workman in a self-acting mule will do the work of 3,000 hand-spinners with the distaff and spindle. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The floor is bare, except that one old mat, trodden to shreds of rope-yarn, lies perishing upon the hearth. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The coarse yarn obtained from it is called coir, and it is also used for cordage. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Fancy stockings, with numerous colours blended, are so knit, and if the yarn holds out a mile of stockings may be thus knit, without a break and without an attendant. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Two men, Wyatt and Paul, of Birmingham, had earlier built a machine to spin stronger yarn than that usually used, but their machine had shown many defects, and they had abandoned its use. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Foreign materials are, upon this account, sometimes allowed to be imported duty-free; spanish wool, for example, flax, and raw linen yarn. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• When the thread yarn was drawn out sufficiently it was wound upon the spindles by a reverse movement of the wheel. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The country people about Cromford came to see Arkwright’s machines, and wonder at them, and sometimes to buy a dozen pairs of stockings that had been made of Arkwright’s yarn. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• But, though they needed his yarn, the manufacturers would not buy it from him, and he was forced to find some way of using his large output himself. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• They were then covered with hempen yarn, to protect the gutta percha from attrition, and they were thus introduced into the hollow cable, of which they formed the core. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Maybe you think I am just slinging you a yarn. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• After the yarn is finally spooled it is found that its surface is still rough and covered with fuzz. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Flying as fast as it does, when the shuttle becomes exhausted of yarn a late invention presents a new bobbin and a new supply of yarn to the shuttle without stopping the machine. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• This improvement put weaving ahead of spinning, and the weavers were continually calling on the spindlers for more weft yarns. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• When yarn is dyed, the coloring matter penetrates to every part of the fiber, and hence the patterns formed by the weaving together of well-dyed yarns are very fast to light and water. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The warp was made by the cloth and linen manufacturers, and the weft yarns furnished by the woman spinsters throughout the country. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Prior to the invention of the _spinning-jenny_, the loose fibre was spun into yarns and thread by hand on the old-fashioned spinning wheel, each thread requiring the attention of one person. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Formerly the bobbins on which the yarns were wound increased in speed as they were filled, thus endangering and often breaking the thread, and at all times increasing the tension. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Fellows used to try to frighten me with their yarns at sea, said Legree. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Color designs of the greatest durability are produced by the weaving together of colored yarns. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• In forming a small rope, two of the yarns thus formed were twisted together in a direction opposite to that of the first twist. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The long travel of the carriage back and forth, and the simultaneous twisting and drawing of the yarns, produced threads of great fineness and regularity. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The yarns, which are wound around bobbins, are drawn from them through perforated plates, these so placed that the yarns converge together and pass into a tube. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Thus finally were means provided to supply the demand for the weft yarns. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• These are now used alike in making fine threads and yarns and in large ropes. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• He was studying hard how to get up a machine to meet the weavers' demands for cotton yarns. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• As the yarns still need to be twisted, they are passed through a roving frame similar to a drawing frame. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• An ingenious device connected with the winding of the roving yarns upon bobbins may be here noted. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.

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