Crochet: alternatives and connections

Needle-shaped; slender like a needle or bristle, as some leaves or crystals; also, having sharp points like needless.

Pricking with a needle; a needle prick.

A gauzelike fabric for ladies' dresses, veils, etc. of worsted, silk and worsted, or cotton and worsted.

Fine worsted for fancy-work; zephyr worsted; -- called also Berlin wool.

A short needle with a strong point. See Needle.

A kind of needle with a large eye and a blunt point, for drawing tape, ribbon, etc., through a loop or a hem; a tape needle.

A twilled fabric for dresses, of which the warp is silk, and the weft worsted. Black bombazine has been much used for mourning garment…

Work done in a bungling manner; a clumsy performance; a piece of work, or a place in work, marred in the doing, or not properly finish…

A coarse cloth so woven as to form regular meshes for working with the needle, as in tapestry, or worsted work.

Tufted cord, of silk or worsted, for the trimming of ladies' dresses, for embroidery and fringes, and for the weft of Chenille rugs.

Of or pertaining to cotton; resembling cotton in appearance or character; soft, like cotton.

embroidery done with loosely twisted worsted yarn

The assertion or statement of a thing done or existing; sometimes, even when false, improperly put, by a transfer of meaning, for the…

The piece hinged to the needle, which holds the engaged loop in position while the needle is penetrating another loop; a latch.

A thin, washable material of silk, or silk and cotton, originally imported from India, but now also made elsewhere.

A very thin, slight, transparent stuff, generally of silk; also, any fabric resembling silk gauze; as, wire gauze; cotton gauze.

A genus of plants which yield the cotton of the arts. The species are much confused. G. herbaceum is the name given to the common cott…

Work done by the hands; hence, any work done personally.