Thinner strands are produced by the roving (slubbing) process, in which the sliver is converted to roving by being pulled and slightly twisted.
For instance, in a report in Life written soon after the Reykjavik match, Fischer was described was wearing a "natty, dollar-green slubbed-silk suit" and was depicted in a wide range of leisure activities, including being fitted for a suit by his English tailor, playing ping-pong, nuzzling a horse, dining at the home of his bodyguard, and going boating while wrapped to his neck in a blanket.
Novelty yarns include a wide variety of yarns made with such special effects as slubs, produced by intentionally including small lumps in the yarn structure, and man-made yarns with varying thickness introduced during production.
Burling, mainly applied to woollen, worsted, spun rayon, and cotton fabrics, is the process of removing any remaining foreign matter, such as burrs and, also, any loose threads, knots, and undesired slubs.
Team both with a slub jersey T-shirt and some thick socks or, if you insist on going outside, some flat and cuddly shearling booties.
While innovative new fabrics – bonded cotton, tweed slub and neoprene mousse – add another dimension to the silhouette and a sense of luxury.
Eric "felt the textural variation of slubs of chewing gum compressed by decades of traffic.
Best of all may be Andrew O'Hagan's contribution: "clart" and "clarty," for "mud" and "muddy" — which he follows up with a rush of other, lost mud-words: slub, plash, blash, and stabble, before including the Suffolk word "durg," for mud that has manure mixed into it, which is one of those words it's hard to know how the rest of us have managed without.
Ms. Ferber, whose previous career included sourcing under-the-radar designers for her stylish West Village clothing boutique, Mick Margo, said approvingly of the shirt: "It has a linen slub in it.
