Which brings me to a digression: What's the difference between a "hank" and a "skein"?? A quick Google image search will show you that people use these ...
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producing a pressure difference between the opposite sides of said passages; and supplying a length of lacing string to said passages so that said string is passed through said passages thereby lacing said skein. ... As is well known in the art, before the skein or hank of yarn formed on a reeling machine is removed therefrom,
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-ajo: balance due: difference between debits and credits of a running account; (cf. bilanco). Ex.: Saldar trupi, employati. — DFI salep-o: (esp. pharm.) salep: dried roots of various orchids. — DEFIRS sali-ar: (intr.) to be protuberant, to jut out, project.
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Considered sewing a $10 bill between the layers and letting posterity think the patch was deliberate! ... I have always dyed in the hank - that is a skein - a long loop of wound wool - I suspect there are different terms in different countries. I wind off quite hefty skeins, tie them loosely in half a dozen places around...
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> I would be interested in a discussion about the relationship between the; > ... Take and place two chais 18 inches apart (I upturn two on a table like in elementary school) and count the wraps (each wrap os 36 inches ) to figure the yardage in a ball/skein, hank. Than extrapolate that to the other balls of yarn.
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They are hank to skein, needle to needle. They are shopping, talking, knitting, laughing...there are a lot of them. I can't even see them all they are packed in there so tight. ... Amy, making an introduction between my sock and hers.
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Martin, Can you tell me the difference between AVER and AVOW? Dennis, What is "chocolate vinyl shake"? Why "vinyl"? I like your take on the addition of SMUT in the clue yesterday. Chris, By "iron-chef" style, you meant "Iron Chef of America", right? ... Hank implies a more dissorganized bundle. Skein is a measured quantity.
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rather thirdhand - and followed by some research that indicated that this is a more or less universal problem in our increasingly flat world - i recently heard about the justifiable horrors that yarn shop employees sometimes experience when a customer comes into their place of business, picks up a skein or a hank,
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The waviness of a fibre Note: This fibre characteristic may be expressed numerically as the crimp frequency, or as the difference between the lengths of the straightened and crimped fibre, expressed as a percentage of the straightened length ... A synonym for skein. Textile linear material in coiled form.
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