Manufactured fibers

Manufactured fibers

Industry: Textiles

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Manufactured fibers

Nonelastic woven tape

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

A woven narrow fabric, weighing less than 15 ounces per square yard, made principally of natural and/or manufactured fibers, including monofilaments, but not containing rubber or other similar ...

Novelty yarn

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

A yarn produced for a special effect. Novelty yarns are usually uneven in size, varied in color, or modified in appearance by the presence of irregularities deliberately produced during their ...

Needled fabrics

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

The product of the needle loom. Needled fabrics are used for rug pads, papermaker's felts, padding, linings, etc.

Needlepunching

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

The process of converting batts or webs of loose fibres into a coherent nonwoven fabric on a needle loom.

Nep

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

A small knot of entangled fibres that usually will not straighten to a parallel position during carding or drafting.

Nub yarn

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

A novelty yarn containing slubs, beads, or lumps introduced intentionally.

Nonwoven fabric

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

An assembly of textile fibres held together by mechanical interlocking in a random web or mat, by fusing of the fibres (in the case of thermoplastic fibers), or by bonding with a cementing medium ...