- Industry: Textiles
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A short length of a single pick that appears to be cut out of the plane of the fabric.
Industry:Textiles
Transparent, lightweight fabrics of different constructions and yarns, especially thoseof silk and manufactured fibers. Examples are chiffons, some crepes, georgette, and voile.
Industry:Textiles
1. The operation of forming a shed in weaving. 2. A loss of nominal length staple at any process in a staple yarn plant.
Industry:Textiles
A path through and perpendicular to the warp in the loom. It is formed by raising some warp threads by means of their harnesses while others are left down. The shuttle passes through the shed to insert the filling.
Industry:Textiles
Bicomponent fibers of either two polymer types, or two variants of the same polymer. One polymer forms a core and the other surrounds it as a sheath.
Industry:Textiles
A dry finishing operation in which projecting fibers are mechanically cut or trimmed from the face of the fabric. Woolen and worsted fabrics are almost always sheared. Shearing is also widely employed on other fabrics, especially on napped and pile fabrics where the amount varies according to the desired height of the nap or pile. For flat-finished fabrics such as gabardine, a very close shearing is given.
Industry:Textiles
1. A hard-finished, twill fabric, woolen or worsted, made of simple weaves with a two-color arrangement of warp and filling yarns. 2. A plain-weave sportswear fabric made of dull-luster acetate or triacetate yarns.
Industry:Textiles
A loosely tufted carpet construction with cut pile 1 to 5 inches in length and with greater than normal spacing between tufts.
Industry:Textiles
A fabric defect characterized by a number of floating ends, usually caused by a broken harness strap on the loom.
Industry:Textiles
