Pile is the raised surface or nap of a fabric, consisting of upright loops or strands of yarn. Examples of pile textiles are carpets, corduroy, velvet...
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Pile (textile), fabric with raised surface made of upright loops or strands of yarn Carpet pile "Piles", a common name for hemorrhoids Rubble pile, in astronomy...
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the fabric. Look up pill in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Nap (textile) Pile (textile) "Pill." The Oxford English Dictionary. 2nd ed. 1989. "Popular Science"...
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the pile high and shearing it to various levels, or by pressing a portion of the pile flat. Pile (textile) Elsasser, Virginia Hencken (2005). Textiles :...
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panel, then cut close to the surface at each end to produce the raised "pile." Textile weaving boasts a variety of motifs, such as guilloche interlace, which...
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similar SIMD device. Knot density Pile (textile) Warp knitting "Weft". The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum. Washington, DC: George...
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Pile weave is a form of textile created by weaving. This type of fabric is characterized by a pile—a looped or tufted surface that extends above the initial...
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The manufacture of textiles is one of the oldest of human technologies. To make textiles, the first requirement is a source of fiber from which a yarn...
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commercially or home-produced from numerous materials, most commonly pile textiles like plush for the outer material and synthetic fiber for the stuffing...
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Velvet (category Pile fabrics)
described velvet and its history thus: VELVET, a silken textile fabric having a short dense piled surface. In all probability the art of velvet-weaving...
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Nap (fabric) (redirect from Nap (textile))
secondary yarn through woven cloth, creating a nap or pile. In the finishing process of manufacturing textiles, after the cloth is woven, it goes through processes...
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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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Plush (category Pile fabrics)
Plush (from French peluche) is a textile having a cut nap or pile the same as fustian or velvet. Its softness of feel gave rise to the adjective "plush"...
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Carpet (redirect from Rug (textile))
A carpet is a textile floor covering typically consisting of an upper layer of pile attached to a backing. The pile was traditionally made from wool,...
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warp through which the filler or weft is fired laterally. Fabrics with a pile formed from loops of loosened, uncut warp threads were woven in ancient Egypt...
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Sherpa (fabric) (category Textile stubs)
dictionary of textiles. Internet Archive. New York : Fairchild Publications. p. 550. ISBN 978-0-87005-198-2. ''Sherpa is the original man - made pile fabric...
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Palaeolithic. An indistinct textile impression has been found at Pavlov, Moravia. Neolithic textiles were found in pile dwellings excavations in Switzerland...
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Tufting (category Textile arts stubs)
Cut Pile vs. Loop Pile Carpet". Caroline on Design. 2019-06-05. Retrieved 2021-04-05. Moody, Von; Needles, Howard L. (2004). Tufted Carpet - Textile Fibers...
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Shag (fabric) (category Pile fabrics)
A shag is a heavy long piled worsted textile. In the 17th century, the term was also used to refer to inferior silk material. Shag became popular as a...
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training uniform Piccadill Picot Pien Fu Pigtail Pile (textile) Pile weave Pileus (hat) Pilgrim's hat Pill (textile) Pillbox hat Pima cotton Pin-back button Pin...
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Velour (category Textile stubs)
Velour, occasionally velours, is a plush, knitted fabric or textile similar to velvet or velveteen. It can be made from polyester, spandex, cotton, or...
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Tabriz type Pile weave Goswami, K.K.; ed. (2009). Advances in Carpet Manufacture, p.239. Woodhead Publishing in Textiles: Number 87 (The Textile Institute)...
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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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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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Cedar bark textile was used by indigenous people in the Pacific Northwest region of modern-day Canada and the United States. Historically, most items...
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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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Velveteen (category Pile fabrics)
a type of woven fabric with a dense, even, short pile. It has less sheen than velvet because the pile in velveteen is cut from weft threads, while that...
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In Pile Cloth Media Filtration, three-dimensional textile fabrics (pile cloth) are used as filter media. During the filter cleaning of the pile layer...
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Rayon (redirect from Modal (textile))
industrialist Hilaire de Chardonnet (1838–1924) invented the first artificial textile fiber, artificial silk. Swiss chemist Matthias Eduard Schweizer (1818–1860)...
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Alcantara (material) (category Textiles)
Alcantara is the brand name of a synthetic textile with a soft, suede-like microfibre pile, noted for its durability. Alcantara was developed in the 1970s...
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