Abstract: Multiple (at least two) differently colored or colorable feed yarns are fed from their respective yarn packages to a multi-position interlacer manifold assembly. The feed yarns are maintained separate and apart from one another and are passed in this separated state through individual interlacer jets associated with the interlacer manifold assembly. The individual yarns are thereafter conveyed to a conventional yarn processing system (e.g., an apparatus known colloquially in the art as a "Gilbos" apparatus) where they are entangled with one another to provide a finished yarn in which the individual yarn components remain substantially coherent throughout the finished yarn. The individual interlaced yarns thus become entangled with one another when subjected to the yarn processing system without substantial inter-yarn blending or commingling occurring (which blending or commingling would thereby cause the constituent yarns to become nearly indistinguishable from one another).

Abstract: The process includes the sequential steps of supplying in a separated side-by-side parallel relationship to a yarn drawing apparatus first multifilament feed yarn and second multifilament feed yarn which are differently colored or colorable with respect to each other; drawing the first feed yarn and the second feed yarn in the yarn drawing apparatus while keeping the first feed yarn and the second feed yarn in a relatively parallel relationship and separate from each other; making a bundle from the first drawn feed yarn and the second drawn feed yarn by simultaneously imparting false twist to the drawn first feed yarn and the drawn second feed yarn without commingling the first and second drawn feed yarns; and texturing the bundle without commingling to make a nontwisted, noncommingled singles yarn displaying two distinct unblended colors.

Abstract: Moresque or berber continuous filament yarn is prepared by supplying a first group of continuous filaments to a first entangling zone where harsh nodes are created so that the first group has a yarn harshness of at least about 200. One or more other groups of continuous filaments, which are differentially precolored or dyeable with respect to the first group, are joined to the first group and interlaced sufficiently to cohere all groups of continuous filaments without blending with the tightly interlaced first group. The finished yarn has node harshness less than 100.

Abstract: An apparatus equilibrates component tensions in a multicomponent filamentary yarn which is advancing in a primary direction. The apparatus includes a series of yarn guides arranged so that the multicomponent filamentary yarn deviates both horizontally and vertically from the primary direction.