- Industry: Textiles
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Any treatment done after fabric production. In dyeing, it refers to treating dyed material in ways to improve properties; in nonwovens, it refers to finishing processes carried out after a web has been formed and bonded. Examples are embossing, creping, softening, printing, and dyeing.
Industry:Textiles
An organic acid (CH<sub>3</sub>COOH) widely used in textile applications. It is used in textile wet processing, dyeing and printing, and in the manufacture of cellulose acetate and cellulose triacetate.
Industry:Textiles
An unquilted bedding fabric designed primarily to provide thermal insulation.
Industry:Textiles
Anhydrous acetic acid ((CH<sub>3</sub>CO)<sub>2</sub>O). It is used in the acetylation process in the manufacture of cellulose acetate.
Industry:Textiles
Any of several processes to remove the natural and artificial impurities in fabrics to obtain clear whites for finished fabric or in preparation for dyeing and finishing.
Industry:Textiles
A type of polymer molecule in which substituent groups or atoms are arranged randomly above and below the backbone chain of atoms, when the latter are all in the same plane (e.g., in polypropylene).
Industry:Textiles
A vapor-deposited filament made by depositing boron on a heated tungsten wire. These fibers are being developed for use in aircraft and space applications. They can be woven into fabrics.
Industry:Textiles
A variation of the plain weave in which two or more warp and filling threads are woven side by side to resemble a plaited basket. Fabrics have a loose construction and a flat appearance and are used for such things as monk’s cloth and drapery fabrics.
Industry:Textiles
A very broad term for stripes that run crosswise in a knit or woven fabric.
Industry:Textiles
