Manufactured fibers

Manufactured fibers

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Laser

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

A device for producing an intense beam of coherent light. It is used for cutting, spectroscopy, photography, biomedical investigations, etc.

A test for evaluation of snagging performance. A fabric sample is mounted on a revolving drum in contact with a miniature mace that tracks randomly across the sample. The spikes of the mace effect ...

Lyotropin polymer

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

Polymers that decompose before melting but that form liquid crystals in solution under appropriate condition. They can be extruded from high concentration dopes to give fibres of high modulus and ...

Liquid crystal polymer

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

Polymers such as aramids or the thermotropic polyesters that form liquid crystals when in the appropriate state, (concentrated solution or melt). Most liquid crystal polymers have in their structure ...

Loom barré

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

A repeated unevenness in the fabric, usually running from selvage to selvage, and caused by uneven let-off or take-up or by a loose crank arm.

Leno weave

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

A weave in which the warp yarns are arranged in pairs with one twisted around the other between picks of filling yarn as in marquisette. This type of weave gives firmness and strength to an ...