Textiles

Textiles

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

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disc test

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

An in-rubber test used to predict the fatigue resistance of tire cords and other industrial yarns.

drying cylinders

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

Any of a number of heated revolving cylinders for drying fabric or yarn. They are arranged either vertically or horizontally in sets, with the number varying according to the ...

draw-frame blends

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

Blends of fibers made at the draw frame by feeding in ends of appropriate card sliver. This method is used when blend uniformity is not a critical factor.

dial

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

In a circular-knitting machine, a circular steel plate with radially arranged slots for needles. A knitting machine equipped with both a dial and a cylinder can produce ...

jet dyeing

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

High temperature piece dyeing in which the dye liquor is circulated via a Venturi jet thus providing the driving force to move the loop of fabric.

dye sites

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

Functional groups within a fiber that provide sites for chemical bonding with the dye molecule. Dye sites may be either in the polymer chain or in chemical additives included in ...