Textiles: an automatic twisting machine for yarn. Engraving c.1861.

Textiles: an automatic twisting machine for yarn. Engraving by J. Scott after W. Ross.

A Chinese lady at winding up a yarn. Painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.

Africa: a man wearing a hat and large metal and yarn necklace. Photograph (by Kurt Lubinski?), 1940/1960.

A group of people gathered around an old lady sitting by a spinning wheel holding a spool of yarn. Lithograph by Gustave Janet.

A mother and daughter reviewing embroidery made by the daughter; a yarn-winder stands nearby. Engraving by F.B. Lépicié, 1740, after J.B.S. Chardin.

A young woman sits on a mountain side with a cow and a basket on the ground, spinnning yarn. Engraving by P. Laurent after Karel du Jardin.

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An essay on truth. Addressed to Veracity Jack, the Yarn-Factor.

75 years between the peachtrees : a history of Crawford W. Long Memorial Hospital of Emory University / Lois Clendenen with Nancy Yarn.

Some reasons humbly offered, for supporting and continuing the Dublin market for linen-yarn, as it is now settled and established in the Yarn-Hall, lately erected near the Linen-Hall.

Reasons humbly offered by the taylors, Button-Sellers, Button-Makers, Throwsters, Twisters, Dyers, Spinners and Winders, &c. for explaining and amending an Act made the Eighth of Her late Majesty, Entituled, An Act for Employing the Manufacturers, by Encouraging the Consumption of Raw-Silk and Mohair-Yarn.

The weaver and housewife's pocket-book; containing rules for the right making of linen cloth. Wherein is shown, What should be the Weight of each Hank of Yarn, that is fit for any Hundred of the Reed; and likewise, the Number of right telled Yarn, in Spinels, Slips, and Cuts, that will be sufficient to make any Number of Ells, from 1 to 60, in a 6 to a 25 Hundred inclusive. With Several useful tables of Dutch weight, and the Measure of the Dutch Reeds on the Scots Ell. To which is subjoined, a distinct receipt for boiling of yarn after the Dutch method, All necessary for the Improvement of the Linen Trade. By David Ramsay Weaver in Dalkeith. Entred in Stationers Hall.

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An essay on truth. Addressed to Veracity Jack, the Yarn-Factor.

75 years between the peachtrees : a history of Crawford W. Long Memorial Hospital of Emory University / Lois Clendenen with Nancy Yarn.

Some reasons humbly offered, for supporting and continuing the Dublin market for linen-yarn, as it is now settled and established in the Yarn-Hall, lately erected near the Linen-Hall.

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An essay on truth. Addressed to Veracity Jack, the Yarn-Factor.

75 years between the peachtrees : a history of Crawford W. Long Memorial Hospital of Emory University / Lois Clendenen with Nancy Yarn.

Some reasons humbly offered, for supporting and continuing the Dublin market for linen-yarn, as it is now settled and established in the Yarn-Hall, lately erected near the Linen-Hall.