GBC
Textile & Yarn Counts

Hank

Modern equivalent

Cotton: 840 yards; Wool: 560 yards

A fixed length of yarn rolled into a coil (840 yards for cotton, 560 yards for wool).

Hanks allowed textile mills and spinners to quantify yarn production accurately for pricing, grading fineness, and international shipping before synthetic fibres transformed the industry.

Related units

Lea

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