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Fine worsted yarn
Answer for the clue "Fine worsted yarn ", 6 letters:
crewel
Alternative clues for the word crewel
Word definitions for crewel in dictionaries
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Crewel is a 2012 young adult dystopian fantasy novel by Gennifer Albin. The book is Albin's debut novel and is the first entry in her Crewel World trilogy. Crewel was released on October 16, 2012 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux and follows a young girl in ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
embroidery, 1590s, of unknown origin. Earliest usage is late 15c., as a name for a kind of thin, worsted yarn originally used in crewel work.
Usage examples of crewel.
Vivid Brueghels hanging on the walls, Jacobean furniture, Linenfold paneled doors, Crewel drapes.
So they sat with their embroidery, doing a few stitches of crewel or stumpwork, sighing and yawning often with poorly concealed boredom.
She brought a basket of pink and gray crewels with her, for she was crocheting a jacket -- for the cat, probably, judging by the size of it.
Or the oak-fly, the body of which is orange colour and black crewel, with a brown wing.
First for a Mayfly: you may make his body with greenish-coloured crewel, or willowish colour.