- Industrie: Textiles
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Celanese Corporation is a Fortune 500 global technology and specialty materials company with its headquarters in Dallas, Texas, United States.
1. A wood, paper, or plastic support, cylindrical or slightly tapered, with or without a conical base, on which yarn is wound.
2. The double-tapered take-up yarn package from drawtwisting of nylon, polyester, and other melt spun yarns.
Industry:Textiles
A woolen cloth generally made in navy blue and used for seamen’s coats. It is usually a heavily milled 2/2 twill with a raised, brushed finish.
Industry:Textiles
Any system of drafting in which the orientation of the fibers relative to one another in the sliver is controlled by pins.
Industry:Textiles
A small pinhead-sized opening usually found about 10 to 12 inches from a selvage. Pinheads usually run in a fairly straight line along the warp and are formed by the shuttle pinching the filling, causing small kinks that show up as small holes in transmitted light.
Industry:Textiles
A fine, fillingwise fabric defect appearing as one or two pick bars in an even repeat. It is caused by a faulty loom pinion.
Industry:Textiles
A rapid, efficient quilting machine that uses ultrasonic energy rather than conventional stitching techniques to join layers of thermoplastic materials. The ultrasonic vibrations generate localized heat by causing one piece of material to vibrate against the other at extremely high speed, resulting in a series of welds that fuse the materials together.
Industry:Textiles
A small accumulation of fibers on the surface of a fabric. Pills, which can develop during wear, are held to the fabric by an entanglement with surface fibers of the material, and are usually composed of the same fibers from which the fabric is made.
Industry:Textiles
The tendency of fibers to work loose from a fabric surface and form balled or matted particles of fiber that remain attached to the surface of the fabric.
Industry:Textiles
