Thread (yarn), the Glossary

Table of Contents

1. 45 relations: Abrasion (mechanical), Ancient Egypt, Appliqué, Bead, Beadwork, Binding (sewing), Car seat, Cellulose, Cotton, Eisengarn, Embroidery, Flame retardant, Flax, Hair, Hank (unit of measure), Horse tack, Kevlar, Lace, Linen, Net (textile), Nomex, Nylon, Polyester, Polytetrafluoroethylene, Rayon, Seam (sewing), Sewing, Sewing needle, Silk, Solubility, Spinning (textiles), Stainless steel, Staple (textiles), Stitch (textile arts), String (structure), Tarpaulin, Temperature, Tent, Twine, Ultimate tensile strength, Upholstery, Weaving, Wire, Wool, Yarn.

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Abrasion (mechanical)

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

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Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient Northeast Africa.

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Appliqué

Appliqué is ornamental needlework in which pieces or patches of fabric in different shapes and patterns are sewn or stuck onto a larger piece to form a picture or pattern.

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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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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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Binding (sewing)

In sewing, binding is used as both a noun and a verb to refer to finishing a seam or hem of a garment, usually by rolling or pressing then stitching on an edging or trim.

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Car seat

A car seat is the seat used in automobiles.

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Cellulose

Cellulose is an organic compound with the formula, a polysaccharide consisting of a linear chain of several hundred to many thousands of β(1→4) linked D-glucose units.

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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. Thread (yarn) and cotton are textiles.

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Eisengarn

Eisengarn, meaning "iron yarn" in English, is a light-reflecting, strong, waxed-cotton thread. Thread (yarn) and Eisengarn are yarn.

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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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Flame retardant

The term flame retardant subsumes a diverse group of chemicals that are added to manufactured materials, such as plastics and textiles, and surface finishes and coatings.

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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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Hair

Hair is a protein filament that grows from follicles found in the dermis.

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Hank (unit of measure)

In the textile industry, a hank is a coiled or wrapped unit of yarn or twine, as opposed to other materials like thread or rope, as well as other forms such as ball, cone, bobbin (cylinder-like structure) spool, etc.

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Horse tack

Tack is equipment or accessories equipped on horses and other equines in the course of their use as domesticated animals.

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Kevlar

Kevlar (para-aramid) is a strong, heat-resistant synthetic fiber, related to other aramids such as Nomex and Technora.

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Lace

Lace is a delicate fabric made of yarn or thread in an open weblike pattern, made by machine or by hand.

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Linen

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

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Net (textile)

Net or netting is any textile in which the yarns are fused, looped or knotted at their intersections, resulting in a fabric with open spaces between the yarns. Thread (yarn) and net (textile) are textiles.

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Nomex

Nomex is a flame-resistant meta-aramid material developed in the early 1960s by DuPont and first marketed in 1967.

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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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Polyester

Polyester is a category of polymers that contain one or two ester linkages in every repeat unit of their main chain.

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Polytetrafluoroethylene

Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) is a synthetic fluoropolymer of tetrafluoroethylene, and has numerous applications because it is chemically inert.

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Rayon

Rayon, also called viscose and commercialised in some countries as sabra silk or cactus silk, is a semi-synthetic fiber, made from natural sources of regenerated cellulose, such as wood and related agricultural products.

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Seam (sewing)

In sewing, a seam is the join where two or more layers of fabric, leather, or other materials are held together with stitches.

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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 needle

A sewing needle, used for hand-sewing, is a long slender tool with a pointed tip at one end and a hole (or eye) to hold the sewing thread.

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Silk

Silk is a natural protein fiber, some forms of which can be woven into textiles.

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Solubility

In chemistry, solubility is the ability of a substance, the solute, to form a solution with another substance, the solvent.

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Spinning (textiles)

Spinning is a twisting technique to form yarn from fibers.

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Stainless steel

Stainless steel, also known as inox, corrosion-resistant steel (CRES), and rustless steel, is an alloy of iron that is resistant to rusting and corrosion.

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Staple (textiles)

A staple fiber is a textile fiber of discrete length.

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Stitch (textile arts)

In the textile arts, a stitch is a single turn or loop of thread, or yarn.

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String (structure)

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.

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Tarpaulin

A tarpaulin or tarp is a large sheet of strong, flexible, water-resistant or waterproof material, often cloth such as canvas or polyester coated with polyurethane, or made of plastics such as polyethylene. Thread (yarn) and tarpaulin are textiles.

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Temperature

Temperature is a physical quantity that quantitatively expresses the attribute of hotness or coldness.

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Tent

A tent is a shelter consisting of sheets of fabric or other material draped over, attached to a frame of poles or a supporting rope.

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Twine

Twine is a strong thread, light string or cord composed of string two or more thinner strands twisted, and then twisted together (plied).

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Ultimate tensile strength

Ultimate tensile strength (also called UTS, tensile strength, TS, ultimate strength or F_\text in notation) is the maximum stress that a material can withstand while being stretched or pulled before breaking.

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Upholstery

Upholstery is the work of providing furniture, especially seats, with padding, springs, webbing, and fabric or leather covers. Thread (yarn) and Upholstery are textiles.

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Weaving

Weaving is a method of textile production in which two distinct sets of yarns or threads are interlaced at right angles to form a fabric or cloth.

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Wire

Overhead power cabling. The conductor consists of seven strands of steel (centre, high tensile strength), surrounded by four outer layers of aluminium (high conductivity). Sample diameter 40 mm A wire is a flexible, round, bar of metal.

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Wool

Wool is the textile fiber obtained from sheep and other mammals, especially goats, rabbits, and camelids. Thread (yarn) and Wool are textiles.

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Yarn

Yarn is a long continuous length of interlocked fibres, used in sewing, crocheting, knitting, weaving, embroidery, ropemaking, and the production of textiles.

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See also

Yarn

• Amann & Söhne
• Bouclé
• Chenille fabric
• Chiengora
• Cord (sewing)
• Eisaku Noro Company
• Eisengarn
• Electrically conducting yarn
• Embroidery thread
• Extra Yarn
• Eyelash yarn
• Fitchburg Yarn Mill
• Flammé (yarn)
• Flax Roughers' and Yarn Spinners' Trade Union
• ISO 2
• Jimmy Beans Wool
• Kraemer Textiles Inc.
• Ladder yarn
• Lastex
• Lion Brand Yarns
• Lopi (knitting)
• Lurex
• Mockado
• Niddy-noddy
• Novelty yarns
• Paper yarn
• Plying
• Ribbon yarn
• Standard Yarn Company Building
• Taslanizing
• Thread (yarn)
• Tuft (aeronautics)
• Twist per inch
• Variegated yarn
• Woolen
• Worsted
• Wrap reel
• Yarn
• Yarn Market, Dunster
• Yarn bombing
• Yarn clearer
• Yarn conditioning
• Yarn over
• Yarn weight

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread_(yarn)

Also known as High temperature sewing threads, High-temperature sewing threads, Sewing thread, Thread emoji, .