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slubbed

ADJECTIVE
  1. of textiles; having a rough surface
    a sweater knitted of nubbly homespun yarns

How To Use slubbed In A Sentence

  • Doupioni is a plain-weave fabric with slubbed ribs.
  • Rough silk in plain weave with irregular filling yarns that give it a slubbed or textured effect; originally of wild silk. HOME COMFORTS
  • Maybe about how it takes the spinner's motivations and turns the fiber into either trash or treasure: greed spinning silk into rusty wire slubbed with rotten straw, laziness spinning wool into a beautiful but useless cobweb thread that disintigrates when touched, vengefulness turning flax into coarse rope no matter how delicately spun, love turning nettles into the smoothest silken cord, selflessness making the spinner's own hair into the finest silver-wrapped silk. Spinning with glass.
  • The dummy is wearing a shirt - claret slubbed silk, wide collar, double cuffs.
  • So, lots of stuff happening here today - the kids slubbed around in the morning in their pyjamas and watched telly for ages, which was great, as that meant sewing time for mummy. More cats, and cords, inchies, cards and so on
  • Describing the collection of new products for 2001, the vice president of development and planning points to an array of textured slubbed fabrics.
  • I like the slubbed silk idea, but I've read somewhere that if you use dupion or shantung with the "lines" sorry, can't remember the proper word running vertically, the seams tend to unravel. A Perfect Storm - A Dress A Day
  • The lanes and the gateways in the fields, as they say, are 'slubby' enough in November, and those who try to go through get 'slubbed' up to their knees. Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies
  • We think its best looks for summer are its lightweight semi-formal coats in pink slubbed cotton or a khaki safari style - a good basis for dressing up or down.
  • I'm trying to spin this as a possibly aran weight thick and thin slubbed two-ply, but I'm struggling. Archive 2007-11-01
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