Initially, the Mărțișor string used to be called the Year's Rope ("funia anului", in Romanian), made by black and white wool threads, representing the 365 days of the year.

The nappina is a small piece of wood, on which a tuft of colored wool threads is sewn.

He would bring bobbins to the women at the looms when they called for them, and collected the full bobbins of spun cotton or wool thread.

Different wool threads, metallic threads or other novelty threads are also used, sometimes for the whole work, but often for accents and embellishments.

Wilson sailed across the Atlantic on a year's contract with a trunk of wool threads "thinking I was going to Indian country, where such things wouldn't be available".

Ordinary kilims: this type of kilim is woven with hemp, cotton and also wool threads.

Here the sea stretched all the way out to a single line pulled across like a wool thread where the sky began.

Medici or broder medici is a fine, light-weight wool thread formerly manufactured by DMC Group.

The red string itself is usually made from thin scarlet wool thread.

The Toba tribe makes textiles from colorful wool threads, as well as the traditional bags, piri hats and carandilla leaf baskets.