Twisted fancy yarns

The classic fancy yarn is a twisted yarn made up of at least three yarns; of these, one serves as a support and is called the core; this is twisted with a second, usually overfed, yarn to create the desired design, this is called the effect. A second twisting stage serves to confer stability, uniting the semi-processed product resulting from the first operation with a third yarn, called the binder yarn. These three functions, core, effect and binding, can also be fulfilled by a greater number

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