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Everything about Thread (textiles)
Type of yarn used for sewing
A thread is a long strand of material, often composed of several filaments or fibres, used for joining, creating or decorating textiles. Ancient Egyptians were known for creating thread using plant fibers, wool and hair. Today, thread can also be made of many different materials including but not limited to cotton, wool, flax, nylon, silk, polyester etc. There are also metal threads, which can be made of fine wire. Wikipedia →
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- Read the overview: Thread (textiles)A 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Highly conductive-sensitive, single-walled carbon nanotubes–poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) polystyrene sulphonate-coated cotton thread for thermally stable fabric and wearable e-textilesInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: The Golden ThreadThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Conductive PEDOT:PSS-coated poly-paraphenylene terephthalamide thread for highly durable electronic textilesCited 34 times
- Go sideways: Units of textile measurementA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Glossary of textile manufacturingA closely related topic
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Conductive PEDOT:PSS-coated poly-paraphenylene terephthalamide thread for highly durable electronic textiles
Following the Thread: Industry Cluster Theory, the New England Cotton Textiles Industry, and Implications for Future Supply Chain Research
Thread-analogous elastic fibers with liquid metal core by drawing at room temperature for multifunctional smart textiles
Hanging by a Thread: Social Change in Southern Textiles.
Metallic thread lace: unveiling manufacturing techniques via scientific analysis of historic textiles
Study of the stretching force of the needle′s thread in the work with woollen textiles
‘A Thread to the Afterlife’ - Textiles and the Otherworld in Irish Poetry: Yeats, Boland, Heaney and Meehan
Extending the thread: Spinning wood into textiles
🆕 Influential since 2022
Highly conductive-sensitive, single-walled carbon nanotubes–poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) polystyrene sulphonate-coated cotton thread for thermally stable fabric and wearable e-textiles
By a thread: Embroidering solar power into standard textiles
Automated thread counting in archaeological textiles using pulse-based feature extraction
Zari and metallic thread ornamentation in Indian textiles: A review based on the national crafts museum & Hastkala Academy, New Delhi
📚 Books worth reading
The Golden ThreadKassia St. Clair, Helen Johns · 2014
Role of Yarn Tension in WeavingSamir Kumar Neogi · 2016- 📕Process Control and Yarn Quality in SpinningG. Thilagavathi, T. M. . Karthik · 2015
- 📕ThreadsDebbie Bates · 2010
Fast, Fun and Easy Incredible Thread-a-BowlsWendy Hill · 2005- 📕Jewelled textilesVandana Bhandari · 2015
Threads of lacePat Earnshaw · 1989- 📕Szintetikus szálak gyártása és felhasználásaLoczka, Alajos. · 1967
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🔗 Related topics
- Units of textile measurement Textile fibers, threads, yarns and fabrics are measured in a multiplicity of units. A fiber is measured in terms of linear mass density, the weight of…
- Glossary of textile manufacturing The manufacture of textiles is one of the oldest of human technologies. To make textiles, the first requirement is a source of fiber from which a yarn…
- Yarn Yarn is a long continuous length of interlocked fibres, used in sewing, crocheting, knitting, weaving, embroidery, ropemaking, and the production of textiles…
- Textile manufacturing Textile manufacturing or textile engineering is a major industry. It is largely based on the conversion of fibre into yarn, then yarn into fabric. These…
- Embroidery thread Embroidery thread is yarn that is manufactured or hand-spun specifically for embroidery and other forms of needlework. Embroidery thread often differs…
- Metallic fiber Metallic fibers are manufactured fibers composed of metal, metallic alloys, plastic-coated metal, metal-coated plastic, or a core completely covered by…
- Crochet thread Crochet thread is specially formulated thread usually made from mercerized cotton for crafting decorative crochet items such as doilies or filet crochet…
- Novelty yarns Novelty yarns include a wide variety of yarns made with unusual features, structure or fiber composition, such as slubs, inclusions, metallic or synthetic…