Crossword clues for crewel
crewel
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Crewel \Crew"el\ (kr[udd]"[e^]l), n. [Perh. for clewel, dim. of clew a ball of thread; or cf. D. krul curl, E. curl. Worsted yarn,, slackly twisted, used for embroidery.
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.
Wiktionary
alt. Worsted yarn, slackly twisted, used for embroidery. n. Worsted yarn, slackly twisted, used for embroidery.
Wikipedia
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 a dystopian society that is pulled from her family due to her ability as a Spinster to manipulate the world via weaving. Albin stated that she came up with the idea of using the term "Spinsters" while comparing the term for old maids with that of the usage of the term to describe someone who spins wool. The following book in the series, Altered, was released on October 29, 2013.
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.