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
Riw Rakkulchon’s ingenious set, suggestive of both a barn and a cabinet of orchestral wonders, allows “Mexodus” to function simultaneously as a suspenseful dramatic yarn and a jam session.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
His two-star review said the remake feels "so pointless" when the original film was "a fun, funny, poignant coming-of-age yarn with fantastic music and a winning Polynesian spin on the Disney Princess template".
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
This is still above all a lovely, soft yarn about crime-solving farm animals, some of them voiced by Regina Hall, Patrick Stewart, and the guy who plays Roy Kent on “Ted Lasso.”
From Salon ● May 17, 2026
“I used to string them on yarn and make necklaces.”
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
We go on a short hike while Yarvin, who looks like an ageing punk rocker, speaks in circuitous, long-winded yarns that reference esoteric texts and periods of history to prove his points.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
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
Balthilda had me hold her yarns so they wouldn’t tangle as she knit, and sometimes I would arrange Hadel’s yarns according to their shades.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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
We yarned away about ourselves and our experiences, then got our cooker under way to have breakfast and to await the arrival of Captain Scott and the seven lustier ponies.
From South with Scott by Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans, Baron Mountevans
I yarned about my experiences as a mining engineer, and said I could never get out of the trick of looking at country with the eye of the prospector.
From Mr. Standfast by John Buchan
When I returned from the West, and yarned to them of starvation and toil and strife in that new world, they urged me to put it down instead of talking it.
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
None surpasses the Sage of Burwash at yarning in dialects of all sorts.
From Time Magazine Archive
The present collection of rural yarning is a useful reminder that Caldwell, 57, is one of the best short-story tellers in the U.S.
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
I've had some excellent times down at Bambury—stayed yarning away to all hours.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, June 23, 1920 by Various
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