Nevertheless, all too good to be true yarns sometimes hit major roadblocks.
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The railway also brought cheap and high-quality foreign yarns to handweavers, which increased the quantity and quality of their output.
New York stockbroker Lambros Ballas is accused of spinning yarns the good old fashion way: by issuing a fake press release.
When a voltage was applied at the ends of the yarns, these ions moved into the fibres, causing them to expand.
His other TV credits include include 1960s sketch show Do Not Adjust Your Set, Ripping Yarns and the Alan Bleasdale drama GBH.
Yarns made of the tiny straws of carbon called nanotubes have an astounding ability to twist as they contract, scientists have found.
However, the yarns twist 1, 000 times as much as previous "artificial muscles".
Biella's experts research and develop new woollen yarns and fabrics continually, spinning fibres ever thinner and gaining ever more precise control over their cloth.
The yarns no longer need to be made by hand, which makes it easier to concentrate on the design and the quality of the weave.
It consists of 50 scenes with Latin captions, embroidered on linen with coloured woollen yarns, and is on permanent display at a museum in Normandy, France.
Generations of fans from famously unlucky sports towns like Boston, Chicago and Cleveland grew up listening to somber yarns about curses, treachery, false hopes and heartbreak.
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To those who wonder whether fashion brands fit better within diversified conglomerates than in a vertically integrated yarns-to-clothing group, Mr Ferragamo says that time alone will tell.
The effect, which occurs thanks to a conducting fluid in which the yarns were dipped, could be put to use in motors much thinner than a human hair.
Hudson, Ohio, based Jo-Ann Stores is a national hobby and craft retailer that sells fabrics, yarns, knitting and sewing supplies and accessories through 750 retail stores and online.
The yarns were made by pulling sheets of nanotubes from "forests" of the tubes and twisting them to form a coiled structure - much as yarn is made from wool.
Weaving is done manually by a lissier, or weaver, on a loom positioned horizontally, working on the reverse side of the tapestry, and using yarns that are hand-dyed in house.
If he had bothered to do a background check, he would have discovered that the firm already worked for Mr Mugabe, and that its director, Ari Ben-Menashe, is a former Israeli agent known for spinning colourful yarns.
While this may have been good news for Nepal, Indian industry claims the market was flooded with exports of hydrogenated vegetable oil, acrylic yarns, iron pipes, copper wire and zinc oxide, which India claims has hurt its market.
Washing with Castile soap and icy water, he worried over his scrawniness, his spindle shins, the green yarns of vein in his forearms, his face so thin that his zygomatic bones and jaw shaped harps underneath his ginger-brown, one-inch beard and mustache.
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