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The wavelength distribution of sunlight under a given environment (e.g., under windowpane glass).
Industry:Textiles
1. A finishing process that produces a smooth, highly polished, or lustrous surface on a fabric such as chintz. The fabric is treated with starch, glue, paraffin, or shellac, then friction calendered. Synthetic resins are used for a more permanent finish.
2. A shiny fabric appearance produced unintentionally, e.g., by pressing at excessive temperature.
Industry:Textiles
A woven fabric characterized by a block or check effect produced by weaving in dyed yarns at fixed intervals in both the warp and the filling.
Industry:Textiles
Manufactured fiber products made into fabrics of various constructions for use in a wide variety of civil engineering applications including several described below.
Industry:Textiles
1. A colloid in which the dispersed particles have combined with thecontinuous phase to produce a viscous, jelly-like product. 2. Degraded polymer occurring inprocess lines. Usually seen as specks in polymer or yarn.
Industry:Textiles
A thin, sheer-woven fabric in which each filling yarn in encircledby two warp yarns twisted around each other, gauze is similar tocheesecloth. It may by made of silk, cotton, wool, or manufactured fibers.Cotton gauze is primarily for surgical dressings.
Industry:Textiles
Used with an extra filling yarn during weaving, this type of standing wirecontrols the height of fabric pile.
Industry:Textiles
1. A generic term for various measurement instruments such as pressure or thicknessgauges.
2. The number of needles per given distance in a knitting machine.
3. The thickness ofthe knitting needle in the shank and the hook.
4. The number of wales per inch in a knit fabric.
5. On spinning or twisting frames, the distance from the center of one spindle to the center of thenext spindle in the same row.
Industry:Textiles
A process for reducing various textile waste materials to fiber by passing them through a machine called a garnett, that is similar to a card.
Industry:Textiles
A change of shade of dyed fabric caused by chemical reaction between certaindisperse dyes and acid gases from fuel combustion, particularly oxides of nitrogen.
Industry:Textiles
