What is a Hank?
November 30th, 2009 by Phoenix HeliopolisA hank is textile unit of yarn and twine. Some bead manufacturers, especially from Czech, use it as a unit measurement. A hank is unit bundle of strands of beads, that are usually 12 strands of 20 inches of strung beads in each hank of 11/0 beads. Different sizes and types of beads may be sold in hanks which have different numbers and lengths of strands.