I hope you understand me, it's a phenomenon that most often occur in knitted materials, as if some lint/thread form tiny, tiny sometimes hard "balls", due to having washed the garment too hard or due to fricion, I don't know. There is even a little device one can buy with which one can remove them, but I can't for the life of me remember what these dots, or "balls" are called! Can anyone help, please?
2006-08-28 02:20:18 · 7 answers · asked by Kim Linklater 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
The balls themselves are called pills, the process of them forming is pilling.
2006-08-28 02:25:55 · answer #1 · answered by C-Man 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The term for this is "pilling" and happens when fibers of a material become knotted due to friction.
2006-08-28 02:24:33 · answer #2 · answered by Decoy Duck 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's called Pilling, it happens in the dryer and washing machine.
2006-08-28 02:25:45 · answer #3 · answered by *~HoNeYBeE~* 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is called pilling. You can remove pills by carefully cutting them off (don't cut the sweater!), or by using a sweater shaver or a sweater stone.
http://www.knitpicks.com/tools/itemid_80276/tools_display.aspx
2006-08-28 06:44:33 · answer #4 · answered by bogiebogie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Balling or pilling
2006-08-28 02:49:50 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
pilling. the only device I know of is to buy one of the shavers that will cut the pills off.
2006-08-28 02:24:39 · answer #6 · answered by yournotalone 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they are called nubbies, and the reason escapes me. it's what my mom, my mother in law and everyone else older than me called them, so that's what i call them.
2006-08-28 02:56:30 · answer #7 · answered by Debi K 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋