These are tiny single loops of some kind.
He lifted his chin, letting the girl thread the last of the pearl buttons through the tiny loop, then waved her away.
She eased the dress on and slipped the tiny loops over each button.
First a machine knits the fleece, leaving tiny loops on its surface, then the fabric is treated in three ways.
On one strip is a pile made of tiny loops.
It ended in a tiny abnormal loop of flesh, instead of a fingernail.
There was even a tiny loop in the crystal, just big enough to permit a chain to pass through.
Next, in order for polyester to become fleece, its knit design must incorporate a surface covered with tiny loops.
The tiny loops had disappeared in a blare of brilliance.
By now the silver thread was a line of tiny loops, widely spaced, each hidden from the land below by a mountain peak.