Manufactured fibers

Manufactured fibers

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Manufactured fibers

An individual or organization which buys greige fabrics and sells them as a finished product to cutters, wholesalers, retailers, and others. The converter arranges for the finishing of the fabric, ...

candlewick fabric

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

An unbleached muslin base fabric used to produce a chenille-like fabric by applying candlewick (heavy-plied yarn) loops and cutting the loops to give a fuzzy effect.

cylinder loading

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

Fibers imbedded so deeply in the wire clothing on a card cylinder that they resist transfer to the doffer cylinder according to the normal fiber path through the card. Causes include improper finish, ...

composite fibers

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

Fibers composed of two or more polymer types in a sheath-core or side-by-side (bilateral) relation.

chemical stability

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

Degree of resistance of a material to chemicals, such as acids, bases, solvents, oils, and oxidizing agents, and to chemical reactions, including those catalyzed by light.