A Fine Openwork Fabric With A Ground Of Mesh Or Net On Which Patterns May Be Worked At The Same Time As The Ground Is Formed Or Applied Later, And Which Is Made Of Yarn By Looping, Twisting, Or Knitting, Either By Hand With A Needle Or Bobbin, Or By Machinery; Also A Similar Fabric Made By Crocheting, Tatting, Darning, Embroidering, Weaving, Or Knitting.

A Term Particularly Applied To A Heavily Wefted Cotton Fabric, With A Dense Pile Of Fibre On The Surface. The Weave Is Of A Weft-sateen Character.

A Compound Fabric Usually Comprised Of A Continuous Sheet Of Thermoplastic Film Such As Polyurethane Or Pvc Bonded To A Base Fabric With Heat Or Adhesive.

A Multi-colour Figured Drapery And Upholstery Fabric Similar To A Brocade, Made Of Silk, Viscose Rayon, Or Combinations Of Yams. Two Warps, One Forming The Ground And One Bind Wefts, In Regular Or Irregular Order, Form The Figure.

(1) (general) A Sheet Of Fibres Or Fabric Wrapped Round A Core With Specific Applications In Different Sections Of The Industry, E.g., Sheets Of Fibre Wound On Rollers Or Round Endless Aprons To Facilitate Transfer From One Process To The Next., Note: In Cotton Spinning, The Sheets Of Fibre From Openers And Scutchers, Sliver-lap Machines, And Ribbon-lap Machines Are Wound On Cores. , ( 2) (flax) An Arrangement Of The Fibre Strands In Scutched Flax, Pieced Out For Hackling, Or In Pieces Of Hackled Flax, To Facilitate Their Removal As Separate Units From Built-up Bundles. (3) (fabric.) The Length Of Fabric Between Successive Transverse Folds When Pieces Are Plaited Down Or Folded,, (4) (fabric) An Individual Layer Of Fabric In Roll Form., (5) Fibres Wrapped Accidentally Round Any Rotating Machine Part., (6) Silk Waste After Discharging And Combing, But Before Processing Into Sliver Or Top. The Staple Length Of The Fibre Decreases Between The First, Second And Third Drafts (combings).

A Sheet Of Fibres Accidentally Wound Round Rollers Or Aprons. It Is Substantially Without Twist And May Be Carded Without Further Processing.

A Crimp That Is Potentially Present In Specially Prepared Fibres Or Filaments And That Can Be Developed By A Specific Treatment Such As Thermal Relaxation Or Tensioning And Subsequent Relaxation.

A Fine, Plain-woven Fabric Of Linen Or Cotton, Made In Various Fine, Sheer Qualities. Various Finishes May Be Applied To A Fabric Of This Type, In Which Case The Product Is Known By The Name Of The Finish Used, E.g. Organdie

A Thin, Light, Crisp, Plain Weave Fabric Usually Of Cotton, Cotton Bends Or Linen. More Firm Than Batiste Or Voile But Less Firm Than Organdy.

In Cotton, A Length Of 120 Yards; In Worsted 80 Yards; In Linen 300 Yards., Note: In Cotton And Worsted These Lengths Are One-seventh Of The Standard Hank. In Determining Grist. It Was Less Wasteful To Count Leas Per 1000 Grains Than Hanks Per Pound (7000 Grains).

The Count Of A Flax-spun Yarn., Lea Count-strength Product; Csp; Break Factor (u.s.), The Product Of The Lea Strength, And The Actual Count Of Cotton Yarn

Long Narrow Strips Of Cloth Attached To The Shoulders Of Small Children's Dresses To Hold Them By When They Began To Walk. These Aids Were Used In The 17th And 18th Centuries. In England, In The 18th Century, Young Girls Wore These Bands Of Cloth Until Marriage.

A Kind Of Skirt. Worn Generally In Combination With An Odhani, Which Is Tucked Into It At The Waist. Possibly Derived From Sanskrit Lanka, Standing For The Waist, And Anga Or Limbs.

Unless Otherwise Specified, The Usable Length Of A Piece Between Any Truth Marks, Piece-ends, Or Numbering, When The Fabric Is Measured Laid Flat On A Table In The Absence Of Tension

Refers To An Open Weave Fabric. In A Leno Weave The Warp Yarns Are Arranged In Pairs, Twisting Or Interlocking Around The Filling Yarn To Prevent Slippage And Make The Open Weave Stronger And More Firm.

A Fabric In Which Warp Threads Have Been Made To Cross One Another, Between The Picks, During Weaving. The Crossing Of The Warp Threads May Be A General Feature Of Plain Leno Fabrics (as Marquisette And Some Gauzes And Muslins) Or May Be Used In Combination With Other Weaves (as In Some Cellular Fabrics ).

Lace Made On A Leavers Machine. The Machine Uses Mechanically Controlled Bobbins And Is Controlled By A Jacquard Mechanism. They Can Produce Fine Delicate Patterns That Resemble Handmade Laces.

A Light- To- Medium-weight, Closely Woven, Plain-weave, Cotton Fabric Made From Good-quality Yams. The Weft Is Coarser And More Closely Spaced And Has A Lower Twist Factor Than The Warp Giving A Soft Fabric In Which The Weft Predominates On Both Sides (cf. Casement Cloth). A Example Was 50s X 36s (12 X 16 Tex), Both Egyptian Yams, 68 X 102 (27 Ends/cm X 40 Picks/cm).

(1) Descriptive Of Yarns Spun Entirely From Flax Fibres., (2) Descriptive Of Fabrics Woven From Linen Yarns., (3) Descriptive Of Articles Which, Apart From Adornments, Are Made Of Yarns Spun From Flax, Note: Despite Some Usage Of This Term In Non-technical Circles As A Generic One, E.g. Linen Department, Baby Linen, Household Linen, It Does Not Apply To Individual Articles That Do Not Comply With The Definition.

Feminine Underwear, Slumberwear And Similar Garments Of Fine Texture And Aesthetic Appeal., Note: The Term, Derived From The French 'lin', Referred Originally To Linen Articles, Especially Ladies' Underwear.

(1) The Main Seed Hair Of The Cotton Plant, (cf. Linters).,(2) A Plain-weave, Highly Absorbent Material With One Raised Fleecy Surface. For Surgical Purposes It Is Sterilised.

Whole And Broken Lint Fibres And Fuzz Fibres, Which Are Removed From Ginned Cotton Seed By A Special Ginning Process., Note: The First Ginning Of Cotton Removes Most Of The Lint Fibres From The Ordinary Raw Cotton Of Commerce. The Seed Is Then Subjected To A Second Processing On A Special Gin To Remove The Linters, Which Are Composed Of A Small Proportion Of Whole-lint Fibres, Greater Amounts Of Broken-lint Fibres, And Fuzz Fibres That Are Much Coarser And Shorter Than The Lint. The Removal Of Lint And Fuzz Is Not Completed By This Operation And The Residue May Be Successively Re-ginned. The Products Are Termed 'first-cut Linters', 'second-cut Linters', Etc., The Length Of The Fibres In Each Successive Cut Becoming Progressively Shorter.

A Process During Which Textile Material Is Immersed In Or Brought Into Contact With Anhydrous Liquid Ammonia. The Treatment Confers 'flat Setting', I.e., Smooth Drying Properties And An Attractive Soft Handle To Cotton Fabrics.

A Highly Twisted, Plied (usually 2-ply) Good Quality Cotton Hosiery Yarn, Spun Generally In Fine Counts. All Lisle Threads Are Gassed And Some May Be Mercerized (mercerized Lisle). A Lisle Thread Was Formerly A Plied Yarn Having Singles Of Opposite Twist.

Fibre From The Fleece Of The Llama (lama Glama) That Inhabits The High Mountain Regions Of South America

Increasing The Weight Of Fabrics By The Addition Of Delequescent Salts, Starch Or China Clay. This Term Is Not Restricted To One Class Of Textile Fabrics, But Is Used Loosely In Connection With Finishing Of Wool, Cellulose, Or Silk Goods.

A Term Used In Wool-sorting For Short Oddments Of Wool Which Fall From The Skirting Tables Or Are Swept Up From The Boards. In Some Countries It Can Include Soiled Tufts And Pieces From Near The Rumps Of Sheep.

A Term Applied To An Assemblage Of Fibres To Denote A Relatively High Degree Of Openness And Resilience, Or A Large Volume For A Given Mass.

In The First Half Of The 17th Century Men Grew One Lock Longer Than The Rest Of The Long Hair. It Is Tied With A Ribbon And Laid To The Front Of The Left Shoulder ("cavalier"-style).

The Display Of Different Intensities Of Light, Reflected Both Specularly And Diffusely From Different Parts Of A Surface Exposed To The Same Incident Light. High Lustre Is Associated With Gross Differences Of This Kind, And Empirical Measurements Of Lustre Depend On The Ratio Of The Intensities Of Reflected Light For Specified Angles Of Incidence And Viewing., Note: This Definition Makes These Differences In Intensity Of Light The Key Point, Since These Form The Chief Subjective Impression On The Observer Of Lustre. Both Specular And Diffuse Light Must Be Present Together, For, If Diffuse Light Only Is Present, The Surface Is Matt, Not Lustrous, Whereas, If Specular Light Only Is Present, The Surface Is Mirror-like, And Again Not Lustrous. The Phrase 'exposed To The Same Incident Light' Has Been Included To Rule Out Shadow Effects, Which Have No Part In Lustre Proper. The General Term 'surface' Is Intended To Apply To Fibres, Yarns, And Fabrics, And Indeed To Other Surfaces, E.g., That Of A Pearl (through There The Differently Reflecting Parts Are Very Close Together). In The Second Sentence Of The Definition, Lustre Is Regarded As A Positive Function Of The Differences, The Appropriate Adjective Of Intensification Being 'high'.