| 单词 | nettle yarn |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnettle yarn nettle yarn n. [after German Nesselgarn (1870 in the passage translated in quot. 1885; 1563 in early modern German)] the prepared fibre of nettles. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > thread or yarn > [noun] > made from other materials vegetable wool1752 pine-wool1854 nettle yarn1879 1879 Cultiv. of Nettle in Germany in Rep. Comm. of Agric. 1878 (U.S. Dept. of Agric.) 564 Nettle yarn which I have spun is stronger, softer, and more glossy than that of hemp, although prepared with a common hackle. 1885 J. S. Stallybrass tr. V. Hehn Wanderings Plants & Animals 469 The Germans also made nets of nettle-yarn. 1920 W. E. Brenchley Weeds of Farm Land xii. 203 In Denmark the nettle yarn has been worked up with wool, with satisfactory results. 1969 Arctic Anthropol. 5 22/1 They sew even their footwear with this relatively undurable nettle yarn. The Amur-Tungus, on the other hand, do not use nettle yarn, but sinew thread. 2016 S. Tolley tr. K. Altmann Fabric of Life 236/1 Nowadays [in Bhutan], nettle yarn is generally boiled in water containing wood ash and is beaten against a stone slab. < as lemmas |
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