By many accounts he was a joker and yarn spinner and while drinking he spread tall tales about his exploits to all who would listen.

Additional orders are also being placed with other yarn spinners to keep pace.

Caroline started working on Courtelle's 1994 colour range last summer, talking to yarn spinners about how the fibre could be used in their upcoming collections.

After all, far from being a whimsical yarn spinner, he was the most autobiographical of humorists.

He has used the full authority of his talent as a yarn spinner to create the atmosphere of a made-up bedtime story.

Brendan, or whoever recorded his voyages, was undoubtedly a yarn spinner.

Where did that fellow turn into the great yarn spinner, the Pulitzer Prize winner who stands atop best-seller lists, arms akimbo?

Parkland Textiles, the Bradford-based woollen yarn spinner and clothing maker, yesterday showed a small increase in profits, despite a difficult six months trading.

It's all great fun from an accomplished yarn spinner.

It was a long time after their invention that yarn spinners adapted them for their own purposes.