Needles pierce fabric and carry thread through it, allowing the user to stitch together materials.

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The pattern was provided but we had to go and pick our own material at the fabric store along with thread to match.

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"I just want to give it a try and see what happens, " he said in an interview last week in a home studio littered with spools of thread and bags of fabric.

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In tie-dying, bundles of ramie threads are bound tightly with cotton before dying so as to produce a geometric or floral pattern when the thread is woven into fabric using a simple back-strap loom.

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With the nucleus of the family in shambles, the fabric of American society is unraveling one thread at a time.

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Traditionally an important role for women in the economy of rural regions, silk-making encompasses planting mulberry, raising silkworms, unreeling silk, making thread, and designing and weaving fabric.

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If he can, then expect Facebook to reach one billion registered users in the near future, and for Facebook to thread its way into the very fabric of every one of those billion connected users.

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It divides itself into four large sections, each dealing with a different thread that the author discerns running through the fabric of America's evolution.

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Brooks Brothers decided to introduce a dressier button-down collar with a higher thread count and made with Italian-woven fabric in its Luxury shirt because sales staff had been getting requests from customers for such a shirt, he says.

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