Filet Lace is often seen in a single color of thread, usually white or ecru, but countries all over the world have used colors thread, precious metal threads, wool, feathers, etc.
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A large variety of industrial products and commodities were transported by camel caravans : weapons, knives, metal thread, needles, glass, mirrors, porcelain, paper, tea, cotton and silk cloth.
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Modern cymbal nuts come in two main varieties, the older being a metal wingnut with an extended metal thread, the more recent being a plastic wingnut in which the thread extension also serves as the mounting bolt sleeve.
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The earliest group of survivals, now re-arranged and with the precious metal thread mostly picked out, are bands or borders from vestments, incorporating pearls and glass beads, with various types of scroll and animal decoration.
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These notes feature a portrait of the railway pioneer George Stephenson, as well as for the first time'windowed'metal thread; this thread appears as a dashed line, yet forms a single line when held up to the light.
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The imperial tents were richly decorated as if they were pavilions, and often had designs resembling tiled panels, usually in floral patterns, either in appli�s work using cloth of different colours, or embroidered in various stitches using silk and metal thread.
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"Sadi Thread and Shisha Glass Embroidery : Techniques and Design to Inspire Creative Stitching " by Betty Luck ( Sally Milner, $ 14.95 ) really concentrates more on sadi, the intimidating cousin of shisha that uses coiled metal thread as fiber.
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Part of the reason for both these facts is the taste among the late Anglo-Saxon elite for embroidering using lavish amounts of precious metal thread, especially gold, which both gave items a magnificence and expense worth recording, and meant that they were well worth burning to recover the bullion.
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"' Twists "'or "'Torsade "', threads made of multiple strands of metal twisted together are also sometimes used, some of which, such as "'Soutache "', sometimes have different colored metals or colored non-metal threads twisted together.
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Over the years, she experimented with a range of materials now taken for granted in fabric design _ raffia, fiberglass, jute, horse hair, harnessmaker's thread, metal thread and foil, Lurex and plastic . ( Their variety would have impressed Donald Judd, who deeply admired her husband's paintings .)
