1.   I need some dark blue cotton thread.

2.   He spices with mercerized cotton thread, which comes in a zillion colors.

3.   In a process similar to tie-dyeing, sections of silk yarns are wrapped with cotton thread to block the dye from penetrating the yarn.

4.   These included photographs of bluish-black cotton threads from the clothes that prosecutors say Simpson wore when he killed Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.

5.   Patterns are drawn by dotting the cloth, and each dot is bunched and covered with fine cotton thread to produce a series of tiny knots.

6.   Roads became narrow, like a cotton thread.

7.   The spun cotton thread is made stronger by painstakingly coating it with ground glass and glue, and the finished product is dangerously sharp.

8.   The hunters then take them home, attach a cotton thread to their legs and use strips of leather to immobilize their wings.