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T-Shirt Yarns: How to Recycle T-Shirts, Etc.
T-Shirt Yarns: How to Recycle T-Shirts, Etc.
Monograph · 24 pages
A 1988 self-published booklet from New South Wales, Australia, on turning stretch knit fabrics such as T-shirts into yarn for knitting, crochet, weaving and other yarn crafts. It covers fabric types and the yarns they produce, testing for greatest stretch, cutting a continuous strip (including tubular knits), stabilizing by stretching, and heavier yarns for mats and rugs. It also covers decorative additions (tags, beads, bows, thick and thin yarn), plying, stretching the yarn supply for a garment, brief notes on weaving and inkle weaving with the yarn, a lace knitting pattern, a glossary and a bibliography.

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