Possible Clues:

• Lengths of yarn
• Hardest (anag.)
• Strands for the sewers, perhaps
• Slang for suits, or fibres
• Clothing, in slang
• In walks, horse makes way so carefully
• Fine, twisted filaments
• Spiral ridges of screw or thin lengths
• Is it all according to how they get stranded?
• The star he'd need to get them stranded