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Textiles

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

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stock dyeing

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

The dyeing of fibers in staple form.

yarn dyeing

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

The dyeing of yarn before the fabric is woven or knit. Yarn can be dyed in the form of skeins, muff, packages, cheeses, cakes, chain-wraps, and beams.

skein dyeing

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

The dyeing of yarn in the form of skeins, or hanks.

energy absorption

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

The energy required to break or elongate a fiber to a certain point.

degree of esterification

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

The extent to which the acid groups of terephthalic and/or other acids have reacted with diols to form ester groups in polyester polymer production.

elongation at break

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

The increase in length when the last component of the specimen breaks.

extended length

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

The length of a face pile yarn required to produce one inch of tufted carpet.