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The formation of a yarn by a combination of drawing or drafting and twisting prepared strands of fibers, such as rovings.
Industry:Textiles
In the manufacture of leaf and bast fiber yarns, the terms “wet spinning” and “dry spinning” refer to the spinning of fibers in the wet state and in the air-dry state, respectively.
Industry:Textiles
The formation of a yarn from filament tow by a combination of cutting or breaking, drafting, and twisting in a single series of operations. Also known as converting.
Industry:Textiles
Variations in take-up of dyes by yarns, resulting in streaks in finished fabrics.
Industry:Textiles
A term used to indicate the number of singles yarns and the number of strands combined for form each successive unit of a plied yarn or cord.
Industry:Textiles
A generic term for a continuous strand of textile fibers, filaments, or material in a form suitable for knitting, weaving, or otherwise intertwining to form a textile fabric. Yarn occurs in the following forms: (1) a number of fibers twisted together (spun yarn); (2) a number of filaments laid together without twist (a zero-twist yarn); (3) a number of filaments laid together with a degree of twist; (4) a single filament with or without twist (a monofilament); or (5) a narrow strip of material, such as paper, plastic film, or metal foil, with or without twist, intended for use in a textile construction.
Industry:Textiles
A type of light source used in fading lamps. It is an electric discharge in an atmosphere on xenon gas at a little below atmospheric pressure, contained in a quartz tube.
Industry:Textiles
A process in rayon manufacture in which carbon disulfide is reacted with alkali cellulose to produce bright orange cellulose xanthate.
Industry:Textiles
