In The 17th Century It Meant For Men The Suit Of Clothes All In The Same Cloth Or Colour. The Court Habit In The 17th And 18th Centuries Meant Men's Clothes, And The Grand Habit Women's, Worn Only At Court And At Festivities Where The Court Was Present.

Heat Transfer

A Process In Which Stricks Of Scutched Flax Are Combed From End To End, Both To Remove Short Fibre, Naps (or Neps), And Non-fibrous Material, And To Sub-divide And Parallelize The Fibre Strands.

Animal Fibre Other Than Sheep's Wool Or Silk., Note: It Is Recognized That This Definition Implies A Distinction Between Sheep's Wool And The Covering Of Other Animals, Notwithstanding The Similarity In Their Fibre Characteristics. Thus The Crimped Form And The Scaly Surface Are Not Confined To Sheep's Wool. It Seems Desirable In The Textile Industry, However, To Avoid Ambiguity By Confining The Term Wool To The Covering Or Sheep And To Have Available A General Term For Other Fibres Of Animal Origin. Normally The Less Widely Used Fibres Are Known By Name E.g., Alpaca, Mohair, Etc., But Collectively They Should Be Classed As Hair. A Difficulty Arises When It Is Desired To Distinguish Between The Fibres Of The Undercoat And The Remainder Of The Fleece; For Instance, Between The Soft Short Camel Hair Used For Blankets And The Coarse Long Camel Hair Used For Belting. The Term Wool Is Sometimes Used For The Shorter Fibre, Qualified By The Name Of The Animal, E.g., Cashmere Wool.

The Quality Of A Fabric Or Yarn Assessed By The Reaction Obtained From The Sense Of Touch., Note: It Is Concerned With The Subjective Judgement Of Roughness, Smoothness, Harshness, Pliability, Thickness, Etc.

(1) A Synonym For Skein. Textile Linear Material In Coiled Form., (2) A Definite Length Of Sliver, Slubbing, Roving, Or Yarn, E.g., In The Metric System It Is 1000 Metres., (3) A Synonym For Count As Applied To Sliver, Slubbing, Or Roving.

Treatment Of Man-made Regenerated-protein Filaments So As To Render Them Completely Insoluble In Cold Water And Cold Dilute Saline Solutions.

A Design Motif Dominated By Diamond Shapes Or Checks In 3 Or More Contrasting Colors As In A Harlequin Costume.

A Woolen Tweed Fabric Hand Woven On The Outer Hebrides Islands Off The Coast Of Scotland. (harris Is One Of These Islands) Genuine Harris Tweeds Are Certified By The Harris Tweed Association.

The First Driven Roller Around Which An Extruded Yarn Passes After Leaving The Spinneret, And Whose Surface Speed Determines The Spin-stretch Ratio.

Hi-fashion Garments (of Which Only A Single Price Is Produced) It's Extravagant, It's Irrational, It's Unique And It's Totally Unaffordable.

One Of A Number Of Bunches Of Raw Jute Forming A Bale. The Heads Are Each Given A Twist And Folded Over Before Being Made Into The Bale.

The Process Of Conferring Stability Of Form Upon Fibres, Yarns, Or Fabrics, Usually By Means Of Successive Heating And Cooling In Moist Or Dry Conditions.

A Method Of Printing Fabric By Transferring A Design From A Paper To Fabric By Passing Them Together Through Heated Rollers Or A Heated Press. Also Called Sublistatic Printing Or Sublimation Printing.

A Fine Light-coloured, Lustrous, And Strong Bast Fibre, Obtained From The Hemp Plant, Cannabis Sativa L. , Note: The Colour And Cleanliness Vary Considerably According To The Method Of Preparation Of The Fibre, The Lower Grades Being Dark Cream And Containing Much Non-fibrous Matter. The Fibre Is Obtained By Retting. Its Principal Use Is In Twine And Cordage, But Some Of The Finer Grades Are Used In Weaving. The Fibre Ranges In Length From 1 To 2.5m (3 To 8 ft). The Term 'hemp' Is Often Incorrectly Used In A Generic Sense For Fibres From Different Plants, E.g., Manila 'hemp' (abaca) From Musa Textilis Nee; Sisal 'hemp' From Agave Sisalana Perrine; Sunn 'hemp' (sunn Fibre) From Crotalaria Juncea L.

A Broken Twill Weave In Which The Twill Line Reverses Regularly Forming Zig Zag V's. Also Called Fishbone.

A Method Of Dry Cleaning In Which An Oil-soluble Reagent Such As Petroleum Sulphonate Is Added To The Solvent So That A Significant Amount Of Water Can Be Added To Obtain A Substantially Clear Dispersion Of Water In The Solvent. In A High-charged System The Concentration Of Added Reagent, A So-called Detergent Is 4% While, In A Low-charged System The Concentration Ranges From ¾% To 2%.

Refers To Yarn That Are Manufactured With A Relatively High Number Of Turns Per Inch . This May Be Done To Increase The Yarn Strength Or To Give The Fabric A Crepey Texture Or Hand.

A Yarn That Has Been Treated Mechanically, Physically Or Chemically So As To Have A Noticeably Greater Voluminosity Or Bulk.

A Plain Weave Fabric Similar To Sheeting With A Stiff Sometimes Glazed Finish . Often Of Linen Or Cotton. Frequently Used For Shades.

A Three Dimensional Effect Produced With A Laser That Changes With The Angle Of View And Reflects Light In A Striking Way . Often Printed On Reflective Material.

The Result Of Infestation Of Growing Cotton By Aphids Of Whitefly. It Takes The Form Of More Or Less Randomly Distributed Droplets Of Highly Concentrated Sugars, Causing Cotton Stickiness.

A Tubular Woven Fabric For Conveying Liquid Under Pressure., Note: Hose Is Manufactured In Both Unlined And Lined Forms. When Unlined, The Weave Is Plain And The Material Is Generally Flax Or Hemp With A Weaving Density So Arranged That When The Fibres Swell On Wetting, The Fabric Becomes Tight Enough To Reduce Percolation Under Pressure To A Negligible Amount. For Lined Hose, Fibres Other Than Flax Or Hemp May Be Used In A Plain Or Twill Weave. Light-weight Hose Woven From Synthetic Yams May Incorporate An Independent Tubular Plastic Lining, Which Is Introduced

(1) Knitted Coverings For The Feet And Legs., (2) Formerly In The UK., The Term Was Used In The Generic Sense Of All Types Of Knitted Fabrics And, Goods Made Up Therefrom.

A Knitting Machine For The Production Of Hosiery. Most Are Small-diameter Latch-needle Circular Knitting Machines

A Term Applied To The Drawing Of Synthetic Filaments Or Films With The Intentional Application Of External Heat.

A Measure Of The Degree Of Ripening Of Viscose, Note: A Hottenroth Number Is Expressed As The Number Of Milliliters Of 10% Ammonium Chloride Solution That It Is Necessary To Add To A Somewhat Diluted Viscose (solution) To Induce Incipient Coagulation Under Standard Conditions.

A Pointed Broken Check Design . Most Commonly A Woven Produced With Contrasting Yarns In Groups Or Multiples Of 4, Woven In A 2x2 Twill. Sometimes Called Dogstooth.

A Soft Toweling Fabric With Short, Loosely Twisted Filling Floats To Aid Absorption, And A Birdseye Or Honeycomb Surface Texture . It Is Sometimes Embroidered.

That Attribute Of Colour Whereby It Is Recognized As Being Predominantly Red, Green, Blue, Yellow, Violet, Brown, Bordeaux, Etc.

The Reversible Changes In Length And Width Of Fabrics Containing Hygroscopic Fibres As A Result Changes In Regain