To do this, skeins of silk thread are immersed in large tubs of hydrogen peroxide.
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The skeins were placed into bales and taken to the mill for processing.
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Common sizes include 25 g, 50 g, and 100 g skeins.
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At the edges, the sweep of line slows and reclaims its identity as a distinct part among the skeins of marks.
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The arms were drawn rearward with a winch lever to further twist the skeins and thus gain the torsion power to cast a projectile.
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The usual solution to the dye lot dilemma is to purchase sufficient skeins from the identical lot before beginning a project.
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The service-to-others theodicy is askeinof unintended parodies on a theodicy of the ' if it wasn't for ...' variety.
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Thread is generally packaged on spools instead of skeins or hanks and is offered for sale in a separate section from ordinary yarns or threads.
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In the textile industry, cranked reels for winding skeins of yarn were introduced.
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The left side (sinister) has three skeins of cotton and a chevron (inverted v) on a blue background.
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Television series are referred to as skeins, and heads of companies or corporate teams are called toppers.
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My sorrow tangled in a thousand skeins.
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The lovely sea sedge has given way to a thinskeinof green pasture that is not required at a time of set-aside land.
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If we look closely, we find that the weight of wool in eachskeinis only approximately 1 oz.
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In the tangledskeinof their policy one continuous thread, and that is a passion for repeal.
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