Manufactured fibers

Manufactured fibers

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Manufactured fibers

coalesced filaments

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

Filaments stuck together by design or accident during the extrusion process.

cloqué fabric

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

From the French term for blistered, it refers to any fabric whose surface exhibits an irregularly raises blister effect.

carpets

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

Heavy functional and ornamental floor coverings consisting of pile yarns or fibers and a backing system. They may be tufted or woven.

cowoven fabric

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

In aerospace textiles, a fabric in which a reinforcing fiber and a matrix fiber are adjacent to each other as one end in the warp and/or filling direction.

crimp setting

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

An aftertreatment to set the crimp in yarn or fiber. Usually heat and steam are used, although the treatment may be chemical in nature.

ceramic fiber

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

An aluminum silicate fiber made by heating aluminum fluoride at 1000¬1200°C with silica and water vapor. The crystals, or “whiskers,” obtained are up to 1 cm long and have high strength. Ceramic ...