Ring spun yarn is when the yarn is both twisted and wound at the same time. Open ended spun yarn is when the yarn is twisted by rotating at the hap or break in the flow.
not if you make it tightly
Yarn is made of fibres twisted together. These fibres or filaments are made of sheeps wool. :)
A yarn in which one type of fiber is twisted or wrapped around another fiber that serves as a core.
similar to a boucle yarn...except the difference is in construction. the effect yarn is wound more tightly and irregularly around the base yarn adding texture and decoration.
Generally, yes.
A coil of yarn may be called a hank or a skein. Yarn is typically sold in a ball or a skein. A hank is different in that it is a big loop of yarn that is twisted up for easy shipping.
Cashmere is a type of wool. Cashmere fibre is collected from cashmere goats. Worsted yarn is the tightly twisted woolen yarn spun from long-staple wool. So a tightly twisted cashmere yarn is called worsted cashmere. Just as a caution in case you are buying cashmere. There is a wool act which describes what type of wool is marked as cashmere. Look at RELATED LINKS SECTION for some interesting links which are worth reading about the topic.
Yarn is made of strands of wool twisted together - or spun, as they call it. That's all it means.However, to spin a yarn means to tell a story.
The process of producing yarn and thread is referred to as spinning. Fibers are twisted and spun together in this method.
Worsted yarn,, slackly twisted, used for embroidery.
It depends on the type of irregularity. The most common is called a slub. Slubs are short sections of the yarn that are wider than the areas on either side and are either not twisted or not twisted as much as the rest of the yarn. There are also snarls, knops and other irregularities that can be intentionally added for artistic effect.