- Industry: Textiles
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A finishing process that raises the surface fibers of a fabric by means of passage over rapidly revolving cylinders covered with metal points or teasel burrs. Outing, flannel, and wool broadcloth derive their downy appearance from this finishing process. Napping is also used for certain knit goods, blankets, and other fabrics with a raised surface.
Industry:Textiles
A solid aromatic hydrocarbon (C<sub>10</sub>H<sub>8</sub>) derived from coal tar. Naphthalene is used as moth flakes and as the basis of certain dye components.
Industry:Textiles
A downy surface given to a cloth when part of the fiber is raised from the basic structure.
Industry:Textiles
A broad term describing a wide variety of plain-weave cotton or polyester/cotton fabrics ranging from lightweight sheers to heavier shirting and sheeting.
Industry:Textiles
A yarn consisting of many continuous filaments or strands, as opposed to monofilament which is one strand. Most textile filament yarns are multifilament.
Industry:Textiles
An instrumental test method that measures the ability of a fabric to resist rupture by pressure exerted by an inflated diaphragm.
Industry:Textiles
A spinning machine invented by Samuel Crompton in 1782 and termed “mule” because it was a combination of the machines invented by Arkwright and Hargreaves. It was once widely used for spinning wool and to a lesser extent for very fine counts of cotton yarn. Its action was intermittent and slower than that of the more current ring spinning frame. It drew out and twisted a length of yarn and then wound it in the form of a cop, or bobbin, then repeated the cycle.
Industry:Textiles
A loose skein of textured yarn prepared for dyeing or bulking. In the bulking operation, the yarn contracts and the resulting skein resembles a muff.
Industry:Textiles
The simple, unpolymerized form of a compound from which a polymer can be made.
Industry:Textiles
