yarn
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The hand-spun yarn dyed in natural colours is woven on handlooms, packing in between 300 and several thousand knots per square inch, depending on the intricacy of the design.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
All you need to get started is a hook and a ball of yarn.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
But he does have an opinion on how to spin a good yarn.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
Other recent events have focused on “lost arts,” including sewing, knitting and jewelry making, in which Edenwald residents have offered instruction and bins of yarn.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026
Brigit flashed the new yarn in her satchel.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
Coppola’s use of archival footage brings Jacobs’ yarns to life.
From Salon ● Mar. 27, 2026
Kelbourne Woolens, for one, delayed the release of two new yarns Kelley had hoped to launch this year because of the trade uncertainty.
From Barron's ● Dec. 24, 2025
Works such as “Treasure Island” and “Kidnapped,” still read today, exemplify the Scottish author’s gift for yarns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 3, 2025
Knitters can opt for smaller patterns that require less yarn, or use up leftover yarn through designs that allow for different yarns to be cobbled together, such as striping.
From Slate ● Sep. 2, 2025
She chose a variety of yarns in colors that reminded her of autumn leaves: warm reds and blazing oranges and golden yellows.
From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day
Returning to that indeterminate East of which he has often yarned before, Author Maugham spins a tale that in less sardonic hands would be a melodrama.
From Time Magazine Archive
As usually happens when I sit down with Marlow, we yarned.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thus they yarned on, and at last Clay took his departure, for it was late.
From Haviland's Chum by Bertram Mitford
While Dick and I yarned and talked over Old times that had gone like the sun, The wail of the desolate plover Came up from the swamps in the run.
From The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens by Henry Kendall
He talked and talked and yarned away, He harped on days of yore — My head it ached and I grew faint; My legs got tired and sore.
From Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp by John Avery Lomax
It’s like a late-night D&M with a mate – only the mate is Nick Cave and we’re yarning with the lights up amid a cast of thousands.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 8, 2019
While Thomas was yarning and clowning, he kept sternly to his poet's vocation.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet Merlyn's knack for livery yarning and his ability for introspection give the book its special quality: a fat, comercial novel with a lean, serious writer signaling wildly to get out.
From Time Magazine Archive
He spent hours yarning about Wallace's phenomenal feats in dictation, but he never told me anything concerning E. W.'s dictating a play in 35 hours.
From Time Magazine Archive
Indeed, he was in a small way a hero, and had made the most of his wakeful hours, yarning to the tars.
From With Wolseley to Kumasi A Tale of the First Ashanti War by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton
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