- المجال: Textiles
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A plain, closely woven, inexpensive cloth, usually cotton or a cotton/manufactured fiber blend, characteristically having figured patterns on a white or contrasting background. Calico is typically used for aprons, dresses, and quilts.
Industry:Textiles
A plain weave, lightweight, sheer, transparent fabric made from fine, highly twisted yarns. It is usually a square fabric, i.e., having approximately the same number of ends and picks and the same count in both warp and filling.
Industry:Textiles
A machine that employs centrifugal force to remove excess liquid from fabrics.
In general, centrifuges are also used to separate materials of different densities.
Industry:Textiles
A machine developed by Fabric Research Laboratories which is used to compact fabrics or to produce warp-stretch fabrics by means of forced crimp and/or shrinkage of the warp yarn.
Industry:Textiles
A lightweight fabric characterized by a crinkling surface obtained by the use of: (1) hard-twist filling yarns, (2) chemical treatment, (3) crepe weaves, and (4) embossing.
Industry:Textiles
A high-tensile fiber or whisker made by heating rayon or polyacrylonitrile fibers or petroleum residues to appropriate temperatures. Fibers may be 7 to 8 microns in diameter and are more that 90% carbonized.
Industry:Textiles
A generic term embracing all textile fabrics and felts. Cloth may be formed of any textile fiber, wire, or other material, and it includes any pliant fabric woven, knit, felted, needled, sewn, or otherwise formed.
Industry:Textiles
A fiber composed of, or derived from, cellulose. Examples are cotton(cellulose), rayon (regenerated cellulose), acetate (cellulose acetate), and triacetate (cellulosetriacetate).
Industry:Textiles
A carbohydrate which is the chief component of the cell walls of plants.Cellulose is found in wood and in cotton, linen, jute, hemp, and all of the bast, leaf, and stemfibers. It is a basic raw material in the manufacture of rayon, acetate, and triacetate fibers.
Industry:Textiles
A chemical that accelerates a reaction. The catalyst is not part of the reaction butincreases the rate at which it takes place.
Industry:Textiles
