Textile is an umbrella term that includes various fiber-based materials, including fibers, yarns, filaments, threads, different fabric types, etc. At...
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The Textile Institute is a professional body for those engaged in clothing, footwear, and textile's whose headquarters are at 8th Floor St James's Buildings...
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Look up pill in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Nap (textile) Pile (textile) "Pill." The Oxford English Dictionary. 2nd ed. 1989. "Popular Science". Bonnier...
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TRENDING – WHAT ARE OXFORD SHOES: FASHION/TEXTILE INDUSTRY (WHAT ARE OXFORD SHOES)". Finderz Keeperz. "Oxford Shoes Guide - How To Wear Oxfords, How To Buy &...
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Nap (fabric) (redirect from Nap (textile))
"Teasel". The Oxford English Dictionary. 2nd ed. 1989. Textile Manufacturer & Knitting World 1977: Iss 1. Textile Manufacturer. 1977. p. 19. Textile Technology...
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Oxford cloth is a type of woven fabric that is often employed to make dress shirts, sometimes called Oxford shirts, worn on casual to formal occasions...
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Textile design, also known as textile geometry, is the creative and technical process by which thread or yarn fibers are interlaced to form a piece of...
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Technical textiles are a category of textiles specifically engineered and manufactured to serve functional purposes beyond traditional apparel and home...
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The Great Bombay Textile Strike was a textile strike called on 18 January 1982 by the mill workers of Mumbai under trade union leader Dutta Samant. The...
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Electronic textiles or e-textiles are fabrics that enable electronic components such as batteries, lights, sensors, and microcontrollers to be embedded...
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Tufted Woven Cord Twist Carpet pile Pile weave Polar fleece Textile pilling "Pile." The Oxford English Dictionary. 2nd ed. 1989. "pile", Dictionary.com Unabridged...
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produced by jacquard weaving. Crêpe janigor Trade name for a heavy rib textile with alternating rayon and dull acetate warp threads, cross-dyed for varied...
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Calico (redirect from Calico (textile))
Calico (/ˈkælɪkoʊ/; in British usage since 1505) is a heavy plain-woven textile made from unbleached, and often not fully processed, cotton. It may also...
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National Union of Textile, Garment and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria. Retrieved 28 December 2020. LeVan, A. Carl; Ukata, Patrick (2018). The Oxford Handbook of...
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In textile manufacturing, finishing refers to the processes that convert the woven or knitted cloth into a usable material and more specifically to any...
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Bunting (decoration) (redirect from Bunting (textile))
" (Kerridge 1988, p. 53). Oxford English Dictionary on CD-ROM, Oxford University Press, 2002. Kerridge, Eric (1988). Textile manufactures in early modern...
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List of fabrics (category Textiles)
Fabrics in this list include fabrics that are woven, braided or knitted from textile fibres. Contents A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Aertex...
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Calendering of textiles is a finishing process used to smooth, coat, or thin a material. With textiles, fabric is passed between calender rollers at high...
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clothing and textiles traces the development, use, and availability of clothing and textiles over human history. Clothing and textiles reflect the materials...
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Synthetic fiber (redirect from Synthetic textile)
Archived 28 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine, Textile World J E McIntyre, Professor Emeritus of Textile Industries, University of Leeds, UK (ed.). Synthetic...
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Oxford Industries, Inc. is a publicly traded clothing company in the United States that specializes in high-end clothing and apparel. The company carries...
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Cotton (redirect from Cotton textile industry)
spun into yarn or thread and used to make a soft, breathable, and durable textile. The use of cotton for fabric is known to date to prehistoric times; fragments...
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River, where the woolen textile mill of the Harper Manufacturing Company was established. At the outlet of Thompson Lake was Oxford village, first called...
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A slub in textiles production refers to thickened areas of a fiber or yarn. Slubbed or slubby fabric is woven from slubby yarn (yarn with a very variable...
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In the history of textiles, frieze (French: frisé) is a Middle English term for a coarse woollen, plain weave cloth with a nap on one side. The nap was...
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Almoravid and Almohad textiles were produced within parts of northwest Africa and Spain between 1058 and 1269 CE under the Almoravid (1050s–1147) and Almohad...
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Tog (unit) (category Textiles)
unit area, also known as thermal resistance. It is commonly used in the textile industry and often seen quoted on household items such as duvets, sleeping...
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Textile performance, also known as fitness for purpose, is a textile's capacity to withstand various conditions, environments, and hazards, qualifying...
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Maya textiles (k’apak) are the clothing and other textile arts of the Maya peoples, indigenous peoples of the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras...
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Net or netting is any textile in which the yarns are fused, looped or knotted at their intersections, resulting in a fabric with open spaces between the...
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