knottings

Once the spiral is properly established, there is no need to fiddle with the mesh size for the transit into the next row, there are no double threads or new knottings-in for this transition, just netting same size endlessly.

Hairnet, current status a stitch in time 2009

Once the spiral is properly established, there is no need to fiddle with the mesh size for the transit into the next row, there are no double threads or new knottings-in for this transition, just netting same size endlessly.

Archive 2009-04-01 a stitch in time 2009

Tremble! for where that is the case with mortals, the threads of their destinies are difficult to disentangle; knottings and catchings occur — sudden breaks leave damage in the web.

Villette 2003

Her eyelids flickered; she was becoming drowsy, the knottings of strain in her face relaxing.

Across The Sea Of Suns Benford, Gregory, 1941- 1984

The half-closed eyes were blood-shot; the lips were baked black, and hideously swollen; their mouths were open; and where the suffused blood -- from the fierce knottings of the cords that bound them -- showed blue and purple, the veins were swollen to the bursting point.

The Mark of the Beast Sidney Watson

It seemed, in general design, to resemble a patch of pusley with its twistings and knottings and intricate loopings.

Ged 1903

But the horses, falling back, begin to prance so that the chariot is smashed; and, entangled in the fragments of the pole and the knottings of the horses, he falls head-foremost into the abyss.

Tentation de saint Antoine. English Gustave Flaubert 1850

Tremble! for where that is the case with mortals, the threads of their destinies are difficult to disentangle; knottings and catchings occur -- sudden breaks leave damage in the web.

Villette Charlotte Bront�� 1835