Manufactured fibers

Manufactured fibers

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Flyer

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

A device used to insert twist into slubbing, roving, or yarn, and to serve as a guide for winding it onto a bobbin. The flyer is shaped like an inverted U that fits on the top of the spindle and ...

The type of card used for cotton fibres and for cotton-system processing. It is named for the flat wire brushes called flats that are assembled on an endless chain that partially surrounds the main ...

Flat-knit fabric

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

1. A fabric made on a flat-knitting machine, as distinguished from tubular fabrics made on a circular-knitting machine. While tricot and milanese warp-knit fabrics (non-run) are knit in flat form, ...

Flat

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

In carding, one of the parts forming an endless chain that partially surrounds the upper portion of the cylinder and gives the name to a revolving flat card. Flats are made of cast iron, T-shaped in ...

Flocking

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

A method of cloth ornamentation in which adhesive is printed or coated on a fabric, and finely chopped fibres are applied all over by means of dusting, air-blasting, or electrostatic attraction. In ...

Flock

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

The material obtained by reducing textile fibres to fragments by cutting or grinding. There are two main types precision cut flock, where all fibre lengths are approximately equal, and random cut ...