Manufactured fibers

Manufactured fibers

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Manufactured fibers

Mock dyeing

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

A heat stabilisation process for yarns. The yarns are wound onto packages and subjected to package dyeing conditions (water, pressure, temperature) but without dye an chemicals in the bath.

Mock leno

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

A combination of weaves having interlacings that tend to form the warp ends into groups (with empty spaces intervening) in the cloth, thereby giving an imitation of the open structure that is ...

Mordant

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

A chemical used in some textile fibres to provide affinity for dyes.

Moresque

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

A multicoloured yarn formed by twisting or plying single strands of different colors.

Morphology

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

The study of the fine structure of a fibre or other material.

Mote

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

A small piece of seed or vegetable matter in cotton. Motes are removed by boiling the fibre or fabric in sodium hydroxide, then bleaching. When not removed, they can leave a dark spot in the ...