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Med. Weight
Balanced
Plain Weave
carded |
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Fancy Yarn
Ladder Like
Warpwise
pile on one side or both
fringe or pile |
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Dobby Weave
both warp and filling floats
no pile yarn |
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Med. Weight
Plain Weave
Combed
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Plain Weave Variation
Made by increasing the reed pressure or by changing the yarn size. small ridges are formed when the warp filling yarns are the same size. larger ridges are formed when filling yarns are larger than the warp |
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| when two or more adjacent warps controlled by the same harness, with two or more fillings placed in the same shed, two or more follow the same parallel path |
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Jaquard Weave
No pile
satin floats on a satin background |
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| How does Brocade differ from damask? |
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| the floats in the design are more varied in length and are often of several colors |
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| What is the difference between BCF and Reg. Fillament? |
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| Bulking makes fabrics more breathable, absorbents, permeable to moisture, and more comfortable they do not pill or shed |
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The finer the yarn the higher the #
The coarser the yarn the lower the # |
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| Different types of twill direction |
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right: from low left to upper right in wool or woolike fabric
Left: from low right to upper left
cotton or cottonlike fabric
reversible twills: herringbone |
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| Difference in twill and satin |
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Twill: each warp or filling yarn floats across two or more fillling warp yarns with a progression of interlacing by one to the right or left
Satin: each warp yarn floats over four filling yarns and interlace with the fifth filling yarn with a progression of interlacing by two to the right or the left |
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| raise one or more harnesses to separate the warp yarns and form a shed |
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| passing the shuttle through the shed to insert the filling |
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| pushing the filling yarn into place in the fabric with the reed |
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| winding finished fabric onto the fabric beam |
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| Extra set is in filling direction |
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| pile weave; floats are arranged in length wise rows |
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| they are scattered over the base fabric; pile weave |
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| Lossens bales, blends and clean fibers |
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| Cleans and aligns fibers, forms carded sliver |
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| Parallels and blends fibers, forms drawn sliver |
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| Parallels and removes short fibers, forms combed sliver (for long staple fibers only) |
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| Inserts slight twist, forms roving |
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| slivers attenuated (drawn out to finer diameter) |
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| Roving attenuated and twist inserted |
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| fibers fluffed to separate; short staple and medium to low twist |
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| fibers fluffed and aligned to be parallel; longer fibers; fabrics are smooth and firm |
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| fibers made more parallel; short fibers removed |
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| high quality (carded and combed) |
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| two or more singles; increases diameter, strength, and performance |
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| obtain cross-dyable effects; better hand, texture, uniformity, economize, better characteristics |
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| where a yarn crosses over more than one yarn at a time |
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| position of warp to filling yarns, |
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| filling yarns not at a 90 angle |
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| filling yarns dip at center |
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| No face or back, examples of fabrics |
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| Technical face and back, advantages over plain weave, right and left hand twill definitions, reversible twills e.g. herringbone |
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| (harnesses controlled in groups, up to 25 harnesses), examples: bird’s eye, Bedford cord, pique |
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| no harnesses, examples tapestry, brocade, damask |
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| dotted swiss (extra filling), eyelash (extra warp) |
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| no harnesses, examples tapestry, brocade, damask |
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| dotted swiss (extra filling), eyelash (extra warp) |
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| Slack warp tension weave (no pile) |
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| example seersucker, warp alternated between taut and slack |
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| filling pile: corduroy, velveteen; warp pile: velvet |
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