Possible Clues:

• On the nut it will have one in stitches
• Connecting element is death, woven right through
• Cord - Internet chat room discussion
• The rib going around a screw
• Might a nut get needled with a sewer?
• (Cotton) strand
• Tyre surface reinforced with hard fibre
• Fine strand
• Unfinished article interpreted as yarn
• The endless story's a yarn