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Textile manufacturing, the Glossary

Textile manufacturing or textile engineering is a major industry.^[1]

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Abacá

Abacá (Spanish) (Abaka), Musa textilis, is a species of banana endemic to the Philippines.

Agave fourcroydes

Agave fourcroydes or henequen is a species of flowering plant in the family Asparagaceae, native to southern Mexico and Guatemala.

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Agricultural land is typically land devoted to agriculture, the systematic and controlled use of other forms of lifeparticularly the rearing of livestock and production of cropsto produce food for humans.

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Alkali

In chemistry, an alkali (from lit) is a basic, ionic salt of an alkali metal or an alkaline earth metal.

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Angora wool

Angora hair or Angora fibre refers to the downy coat produced by the Angora rabbit.

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Arable land

Arable land (from the arabilis, "able to be ploughed") is any land capable of being ploughed and used to grow crops.

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Artificial silk

Artificial silk or art silk is any synthetic fiber which resembles silk, but typically costs less to produce.

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Bast fibre

Bast fibre (also called phloem fibre or skin fibre) is plant fibre collected from the phloem (the "inner bark", sometimes called "skin") or bast surrounding the stem of certain dicotyledonous plants.

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Blackie and Son

Blackie & Son was a publishing house in Glasgow, Scotland, and London, England, from 1809 to 1991.

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Boiler

A boiler is a closed vessel in which fluid (generally water) is heated.

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Cannabis sativa

Cannabis sativa is an annual herbaceous flowering plant.

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Carbon sink

A carbon sink is a natural or artificial carbon sequestration process that "removes a greenhouse gas, an aerosol or a precursor of a greenhouse gas from the atmosphere".

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Carding

Carding is a mechanical process that disentangles, cleans and intermixes fibres to produce a continuous web or sliver suitable for subsequent processing.

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Cellulose

Cellulose is an organic compound with the formula, a polysaccharide consisting of a linear chain of several hundred to many thousands of β(1→4) linked D-glucose units.

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Cellulose acetate

In biochemistry, cellulose acetate refers to any acetate ester of cellulose, usually cellulose diacetate.

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Cellulose fiber

Cellulose fibers are fibers made with ethers or esters of cellulose, which can be obtained from the bark, wood or leaves of plants, or from other plant-based material.

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Child labour

Child labour is the exploitation of children through any form of work that interferes with their ability to attend regular school, or is mentally, physically, socially and morally harmful.

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Clothing

Clothing (also known as clothes, garments, dress, apparel, or attire) is any item worn on the body.

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Clothing technology

Clothing technology describes advances in production methods, material developments, and the incorporation of smart technologies into textiles and clothes. Textile manufacturing and Clothing technology are textile engineering and textile industry.

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Combing

Combing is a method for preparing carded fibre for spinning.

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Cotton

Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus Gossypium in the mallow family Malvaceae.

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Cotton gin

A cotton gin—meaning "cotton engine"—is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, enabling much greater productivity than manual cotton separation.

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Cotton mill

A cotton mill is a building that houses spinning or weaving machinery for the production of yarn or cloth from cotton, an important product during the Industrial Revolution in the development of the factory system. Textile manufacturing and cotton mill are textile mills.

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Cotton picker

A cotton picker is either a machine that harvests cotton, or a person who picks ripe cotton fibre from the plants.

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Dimensional stability (fabric)

Dimensional stability (in fabric) pertains to a fabric's ability to maintain its initial size and shape even after undergoing wear and care, which is a desirable property.

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Dobby loom

A dobby loom, or dobbie loom, is a type of floor loom that controls all the warp threads using a device called a dobby.

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DREF friction spinning

Friction spinning or DREF spinning is a textile technology that is suitable for spinning coarse counts of yarns and technical core-wrapped yarns.

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Dyeing

Dyeing is the application of dyes or pigments on textile materials such as fibers, yarns, and fabrics with the goal of achieving color with desired color fastness.

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Electrostatics

Electrostatics is a branch of physics that studies slow-moving or stationary electric charges.

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Extrusion

Extrusion is a process used to create objects of a fixed cross-sectional profile by pushing material through a die of the desired cross-section.

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Fashion design

Fashion design is the art of applying design, aesthetics, clothing construction and natural beauty to clothing and its accessories.

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Felt

Felt is a textile that is produced by matting, condensing, and pressing fibers together.

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Fiber

Fiber or fibre (British English; from fibra) is a natural or artificial substance that is significantly longer than it is wide.

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Finishing (textiles)

In textile manufacturing, finishing refers to the processes that convert the woven or knitted cloth into a usable material and more specifically to any process performed after dyeing the yarn or fabric to improve the look, performance, or "hand" (feel) of the finish textile or clothing. Textile manufacturing and finishing (textiles) are textile industry.

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Fossil fuel

A fossil fuel is a carbon compound- or hydrocarbon-containing material such as coal, oil, and natural gas, formed naturally in the Earth's crust from the remains of prehistoric organisms (animals, plants and planktons), a process that occurs within geological formations.

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Genetically modified organism

A genetically modified organism (GMO) is any organism whose genetic material has been altered using genetic engineering techniques.

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Glossary of textile manufacturing

The manufacture of textiles is one of the oldest of human technologies. Textile manufacturing and Glossary of textile manufacturing are textile industry.

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Gossypium

Gossypium is a genus of flowering plants in the tribe Gossypieae of the mallow family, Malvaceae, from which cotton is harvested.

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Gossypium arboreum

Gossypium arboreum, commonly called tree cotton, is a species of cotton native to Indian subcontinent and other tropical and subtropical regions of the Old World.

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Gossypium hirsutum

Gossypium hirsutum, also known as upland cotton or Mexican cotton, is the most widely planted species of cotton in the world.

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Government of Western Australia

The Government of Western Australia is the Australian state democratic administrative authority of Western Australia.

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Heckling (flax)

Heckling (or "hackling") is the last of three steps in dressing flax, or preparing the fibers to be spun.

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Hydrogen peroxide

Hydrogen peroxide is a chemical compound with the formula.

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Jacquard machine

The Jacquard machine is a device fitted to a loom that simplifies the process of manufacturing textiles with such complex patterns as brocade, damask and matelassé.

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Kenaf

Kenaf, Hibiscus cannabinus, is a plant in the family Malvaceae also called Deccan hemp and Java jute.

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Knitting

Knitting is a method for production of textile fabrics by interlacing yarn loops with loops of the same or other yarns.

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Knitting machine

A knitting machine is a device used to create knitted fabrics in a semi or fully automated fashion.

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Lancashire Loom

The Lancashire Loom was a semi-automatic power loom invented by James Bullough and William Kenworthy in 1842.

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Landrace

A landrace is a domesticated, locally adapted, often traditional variety of a species of animal or plant that has developed over time, through adaptation to its natural and cultural environment of agriculture and pastoralism, and due to isolation from other populations of the species.

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Linens

Linens are fabric household goods intended for daily use, such as bedding, tablecloths, and towels.

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Loom

A loom is a device used to weave cloth and tapestry. Textile manufacturing and loom are textile engineering and textile industry.

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Lopi (knitting)

Lopi is knitting wool made from the fleece of Icelandic sheep.

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Mule scavenger

Scavengers were employed in 18th and 19th century in cotton mills, predominantly in the UK and the United States, to clean and recoup the area underneath a spinning mule.

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Northrop Loom

The Northrop Loom was a fully automatic power loom marketed by George Draper and Sons, Hopedale, Massachusetts beginning in 1895.

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Open-end spinning

Open-end spinning is a technology for creating yarn without using a spindle.

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Oxidizing agent

An oxidizing agent (also known as an oxidant, oxidizer, electron recipient, or electron acceptor) is a substance in a redox chemical reaction that gains or "accepts"/"receives" an electron from a (called the,, or). In other words, an oxidizer is any substance that oxidizes another substance.

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Oxygen

Oxygen is a chemical element; it has symbol O and atomic number 8.

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Parachute

A parachute is a device used to slow the motion of an object through an atmosphere by creating drag or, in a ram-air parachute, aerodynamic lift.

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Pirn

A pirn is a rod onto which weft thread is wound for use in weaving.

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Ramie

Ramie (pronounced:,; from Malay), Boehmeria nivea, is a flowering plant in the nettle family Urticaceae, native to eastern Asia.

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Rapier loom

A rapier loom is a shuttleless weaving loom in which the filling yarn is carried through the shed of warp yarns to the other side of the loom by finger-like carriers called rapiers.

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Rayon

Rayon, also called viscose and commercialised in some countries as sabra silk or cactus silk, is a semi-synthetic fiber, made from natural sources of regenerated cellulose, such as wood and related agricultural products.

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Reagent

In chemistry, a reagent or analytical reagent is a substance or compound added to a system to cause a chemical reaction, or test if one occurs.

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Reed (weaving)

A reed is part of a weaving loom, and resembles a comb or a frame with many vertical slits.

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Retting

Retting is a process employing the action of micro-organisms and moisture on plants to dissolve or rot away much of the cellular tissues and pectins surrounding bast-fibre bundles, facilitating the separation of the fibre from the stem.

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Ring spinning

Ring spinning is a spindle-based method of spinning fibres, such as cotton, flax or wool, to make a yarn.

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Scutching

Scutching is a step in the processing of cotton or the dressing of flax or hemp in preparation for spinning.

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Sheep shearing

Sheep shearing is the process by which the woollen fleece of a sheep is cut off.

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Shuttle (weaving)

A shuttle is a tool designed to neatly and compactly store a holder that carries the thread of the weft yarn while weaving with a loom.

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Silk throwing

Silk throwing is the industrial process wherein silk that has been reeled into skeins, is cleaned, receives a twist and is wound onto bobbins.

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Sisal

Sisal (Agave sisalana) is a species of flowering plant native to southern Mexico, but widely cultivated and naturalized in many other countries.

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Sodium carbonate

Sodium carbonate (also known as washing soda, soda ash and soda crystals) is the inorganic compound with the formula and its various hydrates.

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Sodium hydroxide

Sodium hydroxide, also known as lye and caustic soda, is an inorganic compound with the formula.

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Spandex

Spandex, Lycra, or elastane is a synthetic fiber known for its exceptional elasticity.

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Spinning (textiles)

Spinning is a twisting technique to form yarn from fibers. Textile manufacturing and Spinning (textiles) are textile engineering.

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Spinning mule

The spinning mule is a machine used to spin cotton and other fibres.

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Staple (textiles)

A staple fiber is a textile fiber of discrete length.

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Stripper (agriculture)

Stripper was a type of harvesting machine common in Australia in the late 19th and early 20th century.

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Sulfuric acid

Sulfuric acid (American spelling and the preferred IUPAC name) or sulphuric acid (Commonwealth spelling), known in antiquity as oil of vitriol, is a mineral acid composed of the elements sulfur, oxygen, and hydrogen, with the molecular formula.

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Synthetic fiber

Synthetic fibers or synthetic fibres (in British English; see spelling differences) are fibers made by humans through chemical synthesis, as opposed to natural fibers that are directly derived from living organisms, such as plants (like cotton) or fur from animals.

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T-shirt

A T-shirt (also spelled tee shirt, or tee for short) is a style of fabric shirt named after the T shape of its body and sleeves.

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Tackler

A tackler was a supervisor in a textile factory responsible for the working of a number of power looms and the weavers who operated them.

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Textile design

Textile design, also known as textile geometry, is the creative and technical process by which thread or yarn fibers are interlaced to form a piece of cloth or fabric, which is subsequently printed upon or otherwise adorned.

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Textile industry

The textile industry is primarily concerned with the design, production and distribution of textiles: yarn, cloth and clothing.

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Timeline of clothing and textiles technology

This timeline of clothing and textiles technology covers events relating to fiber and flexible woven material worn on the body.

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Upholstery

Upholstery is the work of providing furniture, especially seats, with padding, springs, webbing, and fabric or leather covers.

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Urena

Urena is the genus of plants, which grow in various tropical and subtropical areas worldwide, although several species are Asian in origin.

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Urtica dioica

Urtica dioica, often known as common nettle, burn nettle, stinging nettle (although not all plants of this species sting) or nettle leaf, or just a nettle or stinger, is a herbaceous perennial flowering plant in the family Urticaceae.

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Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan, officially the Republic of Uzbekistan, is a doubly landlocked country located in Central Asia.

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Warp and weft

In the manufacture of cloth, warp and weft are the two basic components in weaving to transform thread and yarn into textile fabrics.

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Warp knitting

Warp knitting is defined as a loop-forming process in which the yarn is fed into the knitting zone, parallel to the fabric selvage.

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Water frame

The water frame is a spinning frame that is powered by a water-wheel.

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Wet process engineering

Wet Processing Engineering is one of the major streams in Textile Engineering or Textile manufacturing which refers to the engineering of textile chemical processes and associated applied science. Textile manufacturing and Wet process engineering are textile engineering.

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Woolen

Woolen (American English) or woollen (Commonwealth English) is a type of yarn made from carded wool.

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Worsted

Worsted is a high-quality type of wool yarn, the fabric made from this yarn, and a yarn weight category.

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Yarn

Yarn is a long continuous length of interlocked fibres, used in sewing, crocheting, knitting, weaving, embroidery, ropemaking, and the production of textiles.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textile_manufacturing

Also known as Carding wool, Clothmaking, Fabric engineering, Fabric mill, Garment and Textile Care Industry, Garment factory, Opener (textiles), Scouring mill, Textile Engineering, Textile Mill, Textile Mills, Textile Technology, Textile engineer, Textile engineers, Textile factory, Textile machinery, Textile manufacture, Textile processing, Textiles Engineering, Wool mill, Woolen Mill, Woolen mills, Woollen mill.

, Loom, Lopi (knitting), Mule scavenger, Northrop Loom, Open-end spinning, Oxidizing agent, Oxygen, Parachute, Pirn, Ramie, Rapier loom, Rayon, Reagent, Reed (weaving), Retting, Ring spinning, Scutching, Sheep shearing, Shuttle (weaving), Silk throwing, Sisal, Sodium carbonate, Sodium hydroxide, Spandex, Spinning (textiles), Spinning mule, Staple (textiles), Stripper (agriculture), Sulfuric acid, Synthetic fiber, T-shirt, Tackler, Textile design, Textile industry, Timeline of clothing and textiles technology, Upholstery, Urena, Urtica dioica, Uzbekistan, Warp and weft, Warp knitting, Water frame, Wet process engineering, Woolen, Worsted, Yarn.

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Textile engineering

Textile industry

Textile mills

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