- Industry: Textiles
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Celanese Corporation is a Fortune 500 global technology and specialty materials company with its headquarters in Dallas, Texas, United States.
A computer-controlled, non-contact spray printing process that allows theproduction of intricate multicolored designs. Although this process was developed for carpets byMilliken & Co., it can also be used for upholstery, pile fabrics, and other textiles.
Industry:Textiles
1. The process of treating fabric in a fulling mill, i.e., fulling.
2. In silk manufacturing the twisting of the filaments into yarn.
3. A grinding process, i.e., ball-milling of dyes and pigments.
Industry:Textiles
The degree to which fabrics are unaffected by certain fungi that cause odor and discoloration.
Industry:Textiles
A yarn, fabric, or other textile product that has not been inspected or that does not come up to the standard quality.
Industry:Textiles
A whitish growth caused by spore-forming fungi that grow in a warm, moist, confined atmosphere. The formation of mildew may cause discoloration, tendering, or variation in dyeing properties in cellulosic fiber.
Industry:Textiles
1. Movement of dye from one area of dyed fabric to another. Includes movement of color from the dyed area to the undyed area of cloth.
2. Movement of fibers which go from the center to the outside surface of yarn and back again periodically.
Industry:Textiles
A unit of length, 0.001 inch, commonly used for measuring the diameter of wires and textile monofilaments.
Industry:Textiles
A type of run-resistant warp knitting with a diagonal rib effect using several sets of yarns.
Industry:Textiles
A color match between two materials in which the colors are identical under some lighting conditions but not under others. Metameric color matches are common when different pigments or dyestuffs are used to color the two materials.
Industry:Textiles
