Yarns Are Most Widely Used By Knitters & Weavers


by Mc Lee - Date: 2007-06-23 - Word Count: 251 Share This!

Yarn is a long continuous length of interlocked fibers, suitable for use in the production of textiles, sewing, crocheting, knitting, weaving and rope making. Yarn is any fiber used to construct a fabric. Thread is any fiber used to sew two pieces of fabric together.

(1) Material: Yarn can be made from any number of natural or synthetic fibers
In General Yarns can be classified in to three categories: (1) Natural Yarns (2) Regenerated Fibre Yarns (3) Synthetic Yarns

The most common natural fibre is cotton, which is typically spun into fine yarn for mechanical weaving or knitting into cloth. The most commonly used animal fibre is wool harvested from sheep. Other natural fibers that can be used for yarn include silk, linen. These tend to be much less elastic, and retain less warmth than the animal-hair yarns, though they can be stronger in some cases. The finished product will also look rather different from the woolen yarns. Other plant fibers which can be spun include bamboo, hemp, and Soya fiber

(2) Construction: Yarns are made up of any number of plies. These single plies of yarn twisted in opposite direction together to make a thicker yarn. In General Single Yarns & Double yarns (two plied) Yarns are most widely used by knitters & weavers. In General yarn which is to be used for weaving requires higher strength than knitting yarn to withstand higher loom tensions & jerks. So to give more strength to the weaving yarn higher twist is imparted to weaving yarns as compared with Knitting yarns

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