- Industry: Textiles
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A term describing the surface effect of a fabric, such as dull, lustrous, wooly, stiff, soft, fine, coarse, open, or closely woven; the structural quality of a fabric.
Industry:Textiles
Any mechanical operation used to translate a textile fiber or yarn to a fabric or other textile material. This includes such operations as opening, carding, spinning, plying, twisting, texturing, coning, quilling, beaming, slashing, weaving, and knitting.
Industry:Textiles
A general term for fibers, yarn intermediates, yarn, fabrics, and products made from fabrics that retain more or less completely the strength, flexibility, and other typical properties of the original fiber or filaments.
Industry:Textiles
Shades that are obtained by mixing the three primary colors or by mixing one or more of the secondary colors with gray or black.
Industry:Textiles
A cotton or cotton-blend fabric having uncut loops on one or both sides. Made on a dobby loom with a terry arrangement or on a Jacquard loom. It is used for toweling, beach robes, etc.
Industry:Textiles
A chloride, such as carbon tetrachloride, containing four atoms of chlorine.
Industry:Textiles
A method of measuring the resistance of a yarn or fabric to a force tending to stretch the specimen in one direction.
Industry:Textiles
1. In general, the strength shown by a specimen subjected to tension as distinct from torsion, compression, or shear. 2. Specifically, the maximum tensile stress expressed in force per unit cross-sectional area of the unstrained specimen, e.g., kilograms per square millimeter, pounds per square inch.
Industry:Textiles
The empirical factor T x E1/2 that describes the tenacity elongation exchange relationship for a large number of manufactured fiber systems.
Industry:Textiles
