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String (structure), the Glossary

String is a long flexible structure made from fibers twisted together into a single strand, or from multiple such strands which are in turn twisted together.^[1]

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Abrasion (mechanical)

Abrasion is the process of scuffing, scratching, wearing down, marring, or rubbing away.

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Agave fourcroydes

Agave fourcroydes or henequen is a species of flowering plant in the family Asparagaceae, native to southern Mexico and Guatemala.

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Aglet

An aglet or aiglet is a small sheath, often made of plastic or metal, attached at each end of a shoelace, a cord, or a drawstring.

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Ancient Greece (Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity, that comprised a loose collection of culturally and linguistically related city-states and other territories.

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Arrow

An arrow is a fin-stabilized projectile launched by a bow.

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Astrojax

Astrojax, invented in 1986 by Larry Shaw, is a toy consisting of three balls on a string.

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Axle

An axle or axletree is a central shaft for a rotating wheel or gear.

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Bézier curve

A Bézier curve is a parametric curve used in computer graphics and related fields.

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Bead

A bead is a small, decorative object that is formed in a variety of shapes and sizes of a material such as stone, bone, shell, glass, plastic, wood, or pearl and with a small hole for threading or stringing.

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Bead stringing

Bead stringing is the putting of beads on string.

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Beadwork

Beadwork is the art or craft of attaching beads to one another by stringing them onto a thread or thin wire with a sewing or beading needle or sewing them to cloth.

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Biggest ball of twine

There are multiple claims to the world's biggest ball of twine record, all within the United States.

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Boot

A boot is a type of footwear.

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Bow and arrow

The bow and arrow is a ranged weapon system consisting of an elastic launching device (bow) and long-shafted projectiles (arrows).

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Bow drill

A bow drill is a simple hand-operated type of tool, consisting of a rod (the spindle or drill shaft) that is set in rapid rotary motion by means of a cord wrapped around it, kept taut by a bow which is pushed back and forth with one hand.

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Bowstring

A bowstring joins the two ends of the bow stave and launches the arrow.

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Braid

A braid (also referred to as a plait) is a complex structure or pattern formed by interlacing three or more strands of flexible material such as textile yarns, wire, or hair.

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Cabinet Magazine

Cabinet Magazine is a quarterly, Brooklyn, New York–based, non-profit art and culture magazine established in 2000.

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Cardmaking

Card making is the craft of hand-making greeting cards.

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Catgut

Catgut (also known as gut) is a type of cord that is prepared from the natural fiber found in the walls of animal intestines.

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Chalk line

A chalk line or chalk box is a tool for marking long, straight lines on relatively flat surfaces, much farther than is practical by hand or with a straightedge.

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Clothing

Clothing (also known as clothes, garments, dress, apparel, or attire) is any item worn on the body.

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Coir

Coir, also called coconut fibre, is a natural fibre extracted from the outer husk of coconut, and used in products such as floor mats, doormats, brushes, and mattresses.

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Cord (sewing)

In sewing, cord is a trimming made by twisting or plying two or more strands of yarn together.

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Cotton

Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus Gossypium in the mallow family Malvaceae.

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Crochet

Crochet is a process of creating textiles by using a crochet hook to interlock loops of yarn, thread, or strands of other materials.

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Cylinder

A cylinder has traditionally been a three-dimensional solid, one of the most basic of curvilinear geometric shapes.

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Dentistry

Dentistry, also known as dental medicine and oral medicine, is the branch of medicine focused on the teeth, gums, and mouth.

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Double bass

The double bass, also known as the upright bass, the acoustic bass, or simply the bass, is the largest and lowest-pitched chordophone in the modern symphony orchestra (excluding rare additions such as the octobass).

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Drawstring

A drawstring (draw string, draw-string) is a string, rope or lace used to "draw" (gather, or shorten) fabric or other material.

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Embroidery

Embroidery is the art of decorating fabric or other materials using a needle to stitch thread or yarn.

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Embroidery thread

Embroidery thread is yarn that is manufactured or hand-spun specifically for embroidery and other forms of needlework.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.

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Envelope (mathematics)

In geometry, an envelope of a planar family of curves is a curve that is tangent to each member of the family at some point, and these points of tangency together form the whole envelope.

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Felt

Felt is a textile that is produced by matting, condensing, and pressing fibers together.

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Fiber

Fiber or fibre (British English; from fibra) is a natural or artificial substance that is significantly longer than it is wide. String (structure) and Fiber are fibers.

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Fishing

Fishing is the activity of trying to catch fish.

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Flax

Flax, also known as common flax or linseed, is a flowering plant, Linum usitatissimum, in the family Linaceae.

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Footwear refers to garments worn on the feet, which typically serve the purpose of protection against adversities of the environment such as wear from rough ground; stability on slippery ground; and temperature.

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Guitar

The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with some exceptions) and typically has six or twelve strings.

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Hafting

Hafting is a process by which an artifact, often made of bone, stone, or metal is attached to a haft (handle or strap).

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Harp

The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers.

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Hemp

Hemp, or industrial hemp, is a plant in the botanical class of Cannabis sativa cultivars grown specifically for industrial and consumable use.

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Indus Valley Civilisation

The Indus Valley Civilisation (IVC), also known as the Indus Civilisation, was a Bronze Age civilisation in the northwestern regions of South Asia, lasting from 3300 BCE to 1300 BCE, and in its mature form from 2600 BCE to 1900 BCE.

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Iran

Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Turkey to the northwest and Iraq to the west, Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Caspian Sea, and Turkmenistan to the north, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south.

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Jute

Jute is a long, rough, shiny bast fibre that can be spun into coarse, strong threads.

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Kite

A kite is a tethered heavier-than-air or lighter-than-air craft with wing surfaces that react against the air to create lift and drag forces.

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Knitting

Knitting is a method for production of textile fabrics by interlacing yarn loops with loops of the same or other yarns. String (structure) and Knitting are fibers.

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Knot

A knot is an intentional complication in cordage which may be practical or decorative, or both.

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Leather

Leather is a strong, flexible and durable material obtained from the tanning, or chemical treatment, of animal skins and hides to prevent decay.

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Linen

Linen is a textile made from the fibers of the flax plant.

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Loom

A loom is a device used to weave cloth and tapestry.

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Machine embroidery

Machine embroidery is an embroidery process whereby a sewing machine or embroidery machine is used to create patterns on textiles.

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Macramé

Macramé is a form of textile produced using knotting (rather than weaving or knitting) techniques.

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Mass

Mass is an intrinsic property of a body.

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Mehrgarh

Mehrgarh is a Neolithic archaeological site (dated) situated on the Kacchi Plain of Balochistan in modern-day Pakistan.

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Mesoamerica

Mesoamerica is a historical region and cultural area that begins in the southern part of North America and extends to the Pacific coast of Central America, thus comprising the lands of central and southern Mexico, all of Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, and parts of Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica.

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Musical instrument

A musical instrument is a device created or adapted to make musical sounds.

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Musical keyboard

A musical keyboard is the set of adjacent depressible levers or keys on a musical instrument.

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Natural fiber

Natural fibers or natural fibres (see spelling differences) are fibers that are produced by geological processes, or from the bodies of plants or animals. String (structure) and natural fiber are fibers.

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Nylon

Nylon is a family of synthetic polymers with amide backbones, usually linking aliphatic or semi-aromatic groups.

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Oxford English Dictionary

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the principal historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press (OUP), a University of Oxford publishing house.

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Participle

In linguistics, a participle (abbr.) is a nonfinite verb form that has some of the characteristics and functions of both verbs and adjectives.

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Pattern

A pattern is a regularity in the world, in human-made design, or in abstract ideas.

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Piano

The piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, through engagement of an action whose hammers strike strings.

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Piano wire

Piano wire, or "music wire", is a specialized type of wire made for use in piano strings but also in other applications as springs.

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Plumb bob

A plumb bob, plumb bob level, or plummet, is a weight, usually with a pointed tip on the bottom, suspended from a string and used as a vertical direction as a reference line, or plumb-line.

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Pullstring

A pullstring (pull string, pull-string), pullcord (pull cord, pull-cord), or pullchain (pull-chain, pull chain) is a string, cord, or chain wound on a spring-loaded spindle that engages a mechanism when it is pulled.

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Quipu

Quipu (also spelled khipu) are recording devices fashioned from strings historically used by a number of cultures in the region of Andean South America.

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Rawhide (material)

Rawhide is a hide or animal skin that has not been exposed to tanning.

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Rope

A rope is a group of yarns, plies, fibres, or strands that are twisted or braided together into a larger and stronger form.

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Rotational energy

Rotational energy or angular kinetic energy is kinetic energy due to the rotation of an object and is part of its total kinetic energy.

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Sail

A sail is a tensile structure, which is made from fabric or other membrane materials, that uses wind power to propel sailing craft, including sailing ships, sailboats, windsurfers, ice boats, and even sail-powered land vehicles.

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Scrapbooking

Scrapbooking is a method of preserving, presenting, and arranging personal and family history in the form of a book, box, or card.

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Sewing

Sewing is the craft of fastening or attaching objects using stitches made with a sewing needle and thread.

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Sewing machine

Diagram of a modern sewing machine Animation of a modern sewing machine as it stitches A sewing machine is a machine used to sew fabric and materials together with thread.

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Shoe

A shoe is an item of footwear intended to protect and comfort the human foot.

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Shoelaces

Shoelaces, also called shoestrings (US English) or bootlaces (UK English), are a system commonly used to secure shoes, boots, and other footwear.

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Silk

Silk is a natural protein fiber, some forms of which can be woven into textiles. String (structure) and Silk are fibers.

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Sisal

Sisal (Agave sisalana) is a species of flowering plant native to southern Mexico, but widely cultivated and naturalized in many other countries.

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Slip knot

The slip knot is a stopper knot which is easily undone by pulling the tail (working end).

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Sound

In physics, sound is a vibration that propagates as an acoustic wave through a transmission medium such as a gas, liquid or solid.

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Spinning (textiles)

Spinning is a twisting technique to form yarn from fibers.

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Steel

Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon with improved strength and fracture resistance compared to other forms of iron.

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Strap

A strap, sometimes also called strop, is an elongated flap or ribbon, usually of leather or other flexible materials.

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String (music)

In music, strings are long flexible structures on string instruments that produce sound through vibration.

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String bag

A string bag, net bag, or mesh bag is an open netted bag.

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String figure

A string figure is a design formed by manipulating string on, around, and using one's fingers or sometimes between the fingers of multiple people.

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String instrument

In musical instrument classification, string instruments or chordophones, are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when a performer plays or sounds the strings in some manner.

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String vibration

A vibration in a string is a wave.

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Structure

A structure is an arrangement and organization of interrelated elements in a material object or system, or the object or system so organized.

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Synthetic fiber

Synthetic fibers or synthetic fibres (in British English; see spelling differences) are fibers made by humans through chemical synthesis, as opposed to natural fibers that are directly derived from living organisms, such as plants (like cotton) or fur from animals.

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Tablet weaving

Tablet weaving (often card weaving in the United States) is a weaving technique where tablets or cards are used to create the shed through which the weft is passed.

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Tendon

A tendon or sinew is a tough band of dense fibrous connective tissue that connects muscle to bone.

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Tension (physics)

Tension is the pulling or stretching force transmitted axially along an object such as a string, rope, chain, rod, truss member, or other object, so as to stretch or pull apart the object.

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Textile

Textile is an umbrella term that includes various fiber-based materials, including fibers, yarns, filaments, threads, different fabric types, etc.

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Textile arts

Textile arts are arts and crafts that use plant, animal, or synthetic fibers to construct practical or decorative objects.

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Thread (yarn)

A thread is a long strand of material, often composed of several filaments or fibres, used for joining, creating or decorating textiles.

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A tool is an object that can extend an individual's ability to modify features of the surrounding environment or help them accomplish a particular task.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_(structure)

Also known as String (cord).

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