Textiles

Textiles

Any cloth, woven or knitted fabric; especially the raw materials that are used to make clothing.

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gel

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

1. A colloid in which the dispersed particles have combined with thecontinuous phase to produce a viscous, jelly-like product. 2. Degraded polymer occurring inprocess lines. ...

gauze

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

A thin, sheer-woven fabric in which each filling yarn in encircledby two warp yarns twisted around each other, gauze is similar tocheesecloth. It may by made of silk, cotton, ...

gauge wire

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

Used with an extra filling yarn during weaving, this type of standing wirecontrols the height of fabric pile.

gauge

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

1. A generic term for various measurement instruments such as pressure or thicknessgauges. 2. The number of needles per given distance in a knitting machine. 3. The thickness ...

garnetting

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

A process for reducing various textile waste materials to fiber by passing them through a machine called a garnett, that is similar to a card.

gas fading

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

A change of shade of dyed fabric caused by chemical reaction between certaindisperse dyes and acid gases from fuel combustion, particularly oxides of nitrogen.