Yarn bombing, also known as guerrilla knitting, is a type of street art or graffiti using items made from yarn - whether knitted, crocheted, or made into pom-poms.
Twenty women and a male supervisor died of inhaling noxious fumes from burning acrylic yarn, according to Mr. Bhuiyan.
While long-haired dogs provide the best fiber, spinners have crafted yarn from all kinds of critters, including timber wolves and cats.
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Weaving of Mosi (fine ramie) in the Hansan region (Republic of Korea): Weaving of Mosi is a process involving harvesting, boiling and bleaching ramie plants, spinning yarn from the fibre, and weaving it on traditional looms.
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.
Up to 12 colors of bright merino wool yarn are pulled from cones dangling from the ceiling into the teal-colored machines' high-speed knitting needles.
Using 20, 000 Lego pieces, Lego Technic expert Nicolas Lespour built an automated mechanical loom that weaves fabric from multiple bobbins of colored yarn.
Gettle, 29, who spins her own yarn with wool from their five rams, then turned a bedroom into a craft room for her spinning wheel.
The silk floss for the yarn in Yuki-tsumugi weaving is produced from empty or deformed silkworm cocoons, otherwise unusable for the production of silk yarn.
Cole Haan's ads, featuring tennis star Maria Sharapova, didn't mention Bionic Yarn or that the bag was made from a new, environmentally friendly material.
Unifi, for example, developed its own brand of yarn called REPREVE, which is made from industrial waste and clear plastic water bottles, and is used primarily by apparel manufacturers.
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An identifying serial number engraved onto the metal ring, which has the brand's logo on it, allows the yarn in the shawl to be traced back to the batch it originally came from.
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