Manufactured fibers

Manufactured fibers

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Colorimetry

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

Any technique for evaluating a given colour in terms of standard colors.

Cloudy web

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

An uneven or irregular web from the doffer of a card.

Carboxymethyl cellulose

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

An acid ether derivative of cellulose formed by the reaction of alkali cellulose with chloroacetic acid. The sodium salt of this compound is commonly used as a stabiliser or an emulsifier.

Commercial moisture regain

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

An arbitrary value adopted as the moisture regain to be used in calculating the commercial or legal weight of a fibre shipment.

An individual or organisation which buys greige fabrics and sells them as a finished product to cutters, wholesalers, retailers, and others. The converter arranges for the finishing of the fabric, ...

Candlewick fabric

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

An unbleached muslin base fabric used to produce a chenille-like fabric by applying candlewick (heavy-plied yarn) loops and cutting the loops to give a fuzzy effect.

Cylinder loading

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

Fibres imbedded so deeply in the wire clothing on a card cylinder that they resist transfer to the doffer cylinder according to the normal fibre path through the card. Causes include improper finish, ...