- Industry: Textiles
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A term often used with reference to satins indicating the number of harnesses employed to produce the weave.
Industry:Textiles
In cut-pile fabrics, an apparent change in color when the pile is bent, caused by differences in the way light is reflected off the bent fibers. This phenomenon is a characteristic of pile fabrics, not a defect.
Industry:Textiles
A defect consisting of a bar running across the fabric caused by a difference in appearance of the filling yarn, and occurring at a quill change or knot.
Industry:Textiles
A plain-weave cotton or linen fabric that is heavily sized and is often given oil treatment to make it opaque. The fabric is used for curtains and shades.
Industry:Textiles
A finishing process applied to acetate and triacetate fabrics using a sodium hydroxide solution to give surface saponification; i.e., the fiber “skin” is converted to cellulose. It improves the hand and reduces the tendency to acquire a static charge.
Industry:Textiles
Tow-to-top processing equipment. Seydel combines the prestretching and breaking process in one machine.
Industry:Textiles
A textured yarn that is heat relaxed to reduce torque. Set yarns are not stretch yarns.
Industry:Textiles
An input in process control that defines the desired value or range of values of the variable that is being controlled.
Industry:Textiles
A fabric defect consisting of narrow bars or bands across the full width of the fabric that may appear either as a tight, loose, or corduroy effect caused by loom stops improperly reset by the weaver. Set marks are sometimes caused by the weaver ripping out filling yarn and then not properly adjusting the pick wheel to obtain the proper relation between the fell of the cloth and the reed.
Industry:Textiles
In aerospace textiles, a reinforcing yarn such as graphite or glass around which two different yarns are wound, i.e., one in the Z direction and one in the S direction, etc., for protection or compaction of the yarn bundle.
Industry:Textiles
