- Industry: Textiles
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A thick knit or woven fabric with loops or curls on the face. The base yarns are usually cotton or wool and the loops are made with fibers such as mohair, wool, and certain manufactured fibers. The face simulated the pelt of the astrakhan lamb.
Industry:Textiles
A texturing procedure in which S and Z twist are alternately inserted in the yarn by means of a special heating arrangement.
Industry:Textiles
A term applied to substantivity of dye for a textile material. It refers to the ability of a dye to produce deep shades.
Industry:Textiles
A test designed to measure shrinkage in a cord, yarn, or high-shrinkage fiber when it is immersed in boiling water while under a tension of 0.05 grams/denier.
Industry:Textiles
A term used to describe a material having a pH greater than 7.0 in water.
Industry:Textiles
A term that refers to carpets woven in widths from 54 inches to 18 feet, as distinguished from narrow loom widths of 27 to 36 inches.
Industry:Textiles
A term describing substances having an alkaline nature. Bases may or may not be water soluble.
Industry:Textiles
A term describing a woven fabric with the same size yarn and the same number of threads per inch in both the warp and the filling direction.
Industry:Textiles
