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COTTON |
Sewing thread |
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SEW |
To practice sewing; to work with needle and thread. |
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TATTING |
A kind of lace made from common sewing thread, with a
peculiar stitch. |
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STITCH |
A single pass of a needle in sewing; the loop or turn of
the thread thus made. |
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NEEDLE |
A small instrument of steel, sharply pointed at one end,
with an eye to receive a thread, -- used in sewing. |
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TENSION |
A device for checking the delivery of the thread in a
sewing machine, so as to give the stitch the required degree of
tightness. |
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SHUTTLE |
The sliding thread holder in a sewing machine, which
carries the lower thread through a loop of the upper thread, to make a
lock stitch. |
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TAKE-UP |
That which takes up or tightens; specifically, a device in
a sewing machine for drawing up the slack thread as the needle rises,
in completing a stitch. |
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YARN |
Spun wool; woolen thread; also, thread of other material, as
of cotton, flax, hemp, or silk; material spun and prepared for use in
weaving, knitting, manufacturing sewing thread, or the like. |
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BOBBIN |
...hread, as in spinning or warping machines, looms, sewing
machines, etc. ... |