Beads can be woven together with specialized thread, strung onto thread or soft, flexible wire, or adhered to a surface ( e. g. fabric, clay ).

Cross stitch projects are worked from a gridded pattern and can be used on any count fabric, the count of the fabric determines the size of the finished stitching.

Dropped stitches, which can unravel a fabric, rarely interfere with crochet work, due to a second structural difference between knitting and crochet.

The only available red fabric dye in 1748 was made of madder root, which can be processed to produce a brilliant red dye ( used historically for British soldiers ' jackets ).

This rock can be weathered and eroded, and then redeposited and lithified into a sedimentary rock, or be turned into a metamorphic rock due to heat and pressure that change the mineral content of the rock and give it a characteristic fabric.

The head of the hammer can be left bare for a sharp attack sound, or can be covered with adhesive tape, leather, or fabric for a softer sound.

He wrote, " Being thus finally woven, as it were, into the most intimate fabric of the organism, the once novel character can no longer be withdrawn with impunity, and may have become vitally necessary.

Thread used in weaving is usually much finer than the yarn used in knitting, which can give the knitted fabric more bulk and less drape than a woven fabric.

Depending on the distance between where the loop is drawn through the fabric and where it is knitted, dip stitches can produce a subtle stippling or long lines across the surface of the fabric, e. g., the lower leaves of a flower.

The merged stitches need not be from the same row ; for example, a tuck can be formed by knitting stitches together from two different rows, producing a raised horizontal welt on the fabric.

This can produce interesting visual effects, although the resulting fabric is more rigid, because the slipped stitch " pulls " on its neighbours and is less deformable.

Vertical and horizontal edges can be introduced within a knitted fabric, e. g., for button holes, by binding off and re-casting on again ( horizontal ) or by knitting the fabrics on either side of a vertical edge separately.

New wales can be begun from any of the edges of a knitted fabric ; this is known as picking up stitches and is the basis for entrelac, in which the wales run perpendicular to one another in a checkerboard pattern.

Arbitrarily complex braid patterns can be done in cable knitting, with the proviso that the wales must move ever upwards ; it is generally impossible for a wale to move up and then down the fabric.

Long loops can also be drawn out and secured, forming a " shaggy " texture to the fabric ; this is known as loop knitting.

Additional patterns can be made on the surface of the knitted fabric using embroidery ; if the embroidery resembles knitting, it is often called Swiss darning.

Separately knitted tubes can be applied to a knitted fabric to form complex Celtic knots and other patterns that would be difficult to knit.

Combining certain increases, which can create small eyelet holes in the resulting fabric, with assorted decreases is key to creating knitted lace, a very open fabric resembling lace.

A properly made kilt, when buckled on the tightest holes of the straps, is not so loose that the wearer can easily twist the kilt around their body, nor so tight that it causes " scalloping " of the fabric where it is buckled.

More precisely, space can be viewed as an extremely fine fabric or network " woven " of finite loops.

The distances may be marked with indelible ink and a fine-point pen, by sewing fine threads into the fabric, or by a specially designed stamping machine.

Meanwhile, in 1868, tombs at Ialysus in Rhodes had yielded to Alfred Biliotti many fine painted vases of styles which were called later the third and fourth " Mycenaean "; but these, bought by John Ruskin, and presented to the British Museum, excited less attention than they deserved, being supposed to be of some local Asiatic fabric of uncertain date.

The fabric of these crucibles is porous, probably designed to prevent a build up of pressure, and many have small holes in the lids which may be designed to release pressure or to add additional zinc minerals near the end of the process.

Crocheted fabric is begun by placing a slip-knot loop on the hook ( though other methods, such as a magic ring or simple folding over of the yarn may be used ), pulling another loop through the first loop, and repeating this process to create a chain of a suitable length.

The early European calicoes ( 1680 ) would thus be a cheap equal weft and warp plain weave cotton fabric in white, cream or unbleached cotton, with a block printed design using a single alizarin dye, fixed with two mordants giving a red and black pattern.

The described feeling of oneness ( of being inextricably woven to the fabric of one's surroundings or environment ) is thought to be akin to egolessness.

FIE rules state that the tournament outfits must be made of fabric that resists a force of and that the mask bib must resist double that amount.

In weft knitting, the entire fabric may be produced from a single yarn, by adding stitches to each wale in turn, moving across the fabric as in a raster scan.

However, this need not be so ; the new loop may be passed through an already secured stitch lower down on the fabric, or even between secured stitches ( a dip stitch ).

The new loop may also be passed between two stitches in the present row, thus clustering the intervening stitches ; this approach is often used to produce a smocking effect in the fabric.

Place the template ( Fig. 2 ) on the fabric so that the sides of the 10 inch square cut out of the template are parallel to the warp and filling for woven fabrics, or the wales and courses for knitted fabrics, and so that the same amount of fabric extends beyond the edges of the template on all sides.

Off-loom beadweaving is a family of beadwork techniques in which seed beads are woven together into a flat fabric or a three-dimensional object such as a ball, clasp, box, or a piece of jewelry.

All cross stitch fabrics are technically " evenweave ", it refers to the fact that the fabric is woven to make sure that there are the same number of threads in an inch both left to right and top to bottom ( vertically and horizontally ).

The Hebrew Bible contains " sagas, heroic epics, oral traditions, annals, biographies, narrative histories, novellae, belles lettres, proverbs and wisdom-sayings, poetry, prophecy, apocalyptic, and much more ... the whole finally woven into a composite, highly complex literary fabric sometime in the Hellenistic era.

Knitted garments are often more form-fitting than woven garments, since their elasticity allows them to follow the body's curvature closely ; by contrast, curvature is introduced into most woven garments only with sewn darts, flares, gussets and gores, the seams of which lower the elasticity of the woven fabric still further.

Modern kimono fabric is woven as wide as 42 centimeters ( 17 inches ) to accommodate modern Japanese body sizes.

Double-width fabric is woven so that the pattern exactly matches on the selvage.

Meaning is a complicated phenomenon that is woven into the fabric of our lives.

The patches can be made of any material, but are usually woven or embroidered fabric, though they can also be made from paper or, increasingly, plastic.

Because of its low dye acceptance, feel and appearance, the rubber fiber is either covered by yarn of another fiber or directly woven with other yarns into the fabric.

Dot matrix pattern woven into fabric in 1858, using punched card s on a Jacquard loom.

Contrary to popular belief, the stripe is not sewn in finishing the product, but woven into the fabric itself.

Cheaper trampolines often substitute a less durable woven fabric in place of canvas, making them more apt to damage when used simultaneously by more than one person.

# It represents a fabric woven from sea silk.

Flax was grown, carded, spun and woven into white fabric and thread which was used to make and decorate traditional Norwegian costume items called bunads ( national costumes ) as well as other items of clothing and household linens such as mats, curtains and bedspreads.

Modern Hardanger fabric is an evenweave cotton material woven with pairs of threads, typically 22 pairs per linear inch in both directions, referred to as ' 22-count '.