| SPINNING | Process of converting wool, silk, cotton or flax into yarn (8) |
| NOIL | Short fibres or knots combed out of wool/silk staple before spinning (4) |
| RUMPELSTILTSKIN | Flax-into-gold spinner of folklore |
| SPINDLES | Wooden spikes used to spin cotton, flax or wool into yarn; or, a turned piece of wood used as a chair leg or banister (8) |
| SPINDLE | Pin by which wool, cotton or flax is twisted into yarn; piece of latheturned wood used as a chair leg or baluster; or, the fusee of a watch (7) |
| SWANSDOWN | A cob, "cygnus" or pen's fine fluffy under-plumage traditionally used for muffs, pelerines, powder puffs or trimmings; a mixed fabric of wool and silk/cotton; or, a flannelette-like cloth formerly use |
| LIQUIDATION | Process of converting securities or commodities into cash |
| ENCRYPTION | The process of converting data or information into code, often to prevent unauthorised access (10) |
| WINEMAKERS | Vintners who often collaborate with viticulturists and oenologists in the vinification process of converting grapes into rose, rouge or vin blanc (10) |
| BOLL | Word for a bubble originally, now a rounded seed-capsule of a cotton or flax plant; or, a poppy-head (4) |
| VELVET | Fabric of silk, cotton or nylon (6) |
| ORGANZA | Thin stiff fabric of rayon, silk, cotton or nylon (7) |
| TANNING | Process of converting hide into leather |
| OIL | Substance extracted from olives, avocados, walnuts or the seeds of sunflowers, poppies or flax as a culinary ingredient or as medium for artists paints or pigments (3) |
| YEAST | Any of various single-celled fungi of the genus Saccharomyces and related genera, capable of converting sugar into alcohol and carbon dioxide (5) |
| BYSSUS | An antique textile term for fine linen or flax that came to describe the beard of the Pinna nobilis shell that is sometimes woven into sea silk (6) |
| FIBRE | Strength of character; a natural or synthetic filament for spinning into yarn; or, dietary roughage (5) |
| WOOL | Fleece of a sheep or goat, often woven into yarn for knitwear/blankets (4) |
| KAPOK | Fibre of the ceiba or silk-cotton tree, traditionally used for acoustical damping or for stuffing life jackets, pillows, rag dolls, teddy bears etc (5) |
| FLOSS | Corn silk, cotton candy, dental string, embroidery thread, fluff or other apparently wool- or down-like stuff (5) |
