rowiness
Noun
The state or condition of being rowy.
Usage- Uncountable
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[…] thereby causing the rowiness or pattern-like appearance, which is completely obviated by the present contrivance.
More examples (1)
In Mr. Heath's machine […] is the means by which he obtains lines not only varied in themselves, but differing from each other so as to avoid rowiness, and thus to produce, it is presumed, a near resemblance to hand-ruling, retaining, at the same time, the perfect equality of distance between the lines and uniformity of strength characteristic of machine-ruling.
[…] and often through rowiness and being uneven he has to dye it again, a loss the skein dyer seldom has to complain of.