- Industry: Textiles
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The process of exposing wool fibers alone or in combination with other fibers to mechanical and chemical action, pressure, moisture, and heat so that they tangle, shrink, and mat to form a compact material. Felting is generally carried out in a fulling mill.
Industry:Textiles
A dryer in which cloth is suspended in loops over a series of supporting horizontal poles and carried through the heated chamber in this configuration.
Industry:Textiles
1. The end of a piece of fabric that is woven last. 2. In weaving, the last filling pick laid in the fabric at any time.
Industry:Textiles
1. A nonwoven sheet of matted material of wool, hair, or fur, sometimes in combination with certain manufactured fibers, made by a combination of mechanical and chemical action, pressure, moisture, and heat.
2. A woven fabric generally made from wool, but occasionally from cotton or certain manufactured fibers, that is heavily shrunk and fulled, making it almost impossible to distinguish the weave.
Industry:Textiles
Yarns consisting of a core of discontinuous fibers with little or no twist and surface fibers wrapped around the core bundle.
Industry:Textiles
The process of shaping a fabric during knitting by increasing or decreasing the number of needles in action. Fashioning is used in manufacturing hosiery, underwear, and sweaters.
Industry:Textiles
Refers to the resistance of a material to weakening or failure during alternate tension-compression cycles, i.e., in stretch yarns, the loss of ability to recover after having been stretched.
Industry:Textiles
A soft, slightly glossy woven fabric made of silk, rayon, cotton, wool, or manufactured fibers or combinations of these fibers and having a light, flat crossgrain rib or cord made by using heavier yarns in the filling than in the warp.
Industry:Textiles
A lining or trim that protects the edges of a garment especially at collars, cuffs, and front closings.
Industry:Textiles
