yarn
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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
Inside, there’s a great mix of yarn, art supplies, and classes if you’re feeling inspired.
From Salon • Mar. 31, 2026
“Smoglandia” is a great California yarn, and one with the ending still unwritten.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026
Thought to be made from a cattle femur, this decorated Anglo-Saxon spindle whorl, used to provide weight while spinning yarn, was unearthed from farmland near Bishopstone, Buckinghamshire.
From BBC • Jan. 30, 2026
He filled the seams between the new planks with wool yarn unraveled from a scarf and then caulked them with Marston’s oil paints.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
Vocabulary lists containing yarn
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
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