Natural
The basic and smallest unit of a fabric
Fiber
Fibers that are made from crude oil and natural gas.
Petrochemicals
Long and continuous fibers.
Filament
A method of giving color to textiles using coloring agents called dyes.
Dyeing
A kind of synthetic fiber that can be stretched repeatedly and still recover to very near its original length and shape.
Spandex
The only protein fiber that naturally produces continuous filament.
Silk
A semi-synthetic fabric that is commonly used as a substitute for cotton or silk.
Lyocell
The capacity of a fiber to support a load.
Strength
The chemical that fixes the dye
Mordant
The ability of the fiber to retain the water which depends on the ratio of fiber’s amorphous and crystalline region
Absorbency
Fibers that comes from plants.
Cellulosic fiber
Derived from cellulose by reacting purified cellulose from wood pulp with acetic acid and acetic anhydride in the presence of sulfuric acid.
Acetate
The capacity of the fibers to hold together.
Cohesiveness
A method of dyeing used years ago before the advent of the chemical processes.
Natural
Last through 25-30 launderings / dry cleaning.
SEMI DURABLE FINISHES
Fibers come from the flax plant which has blue flowers and grows in damp conditions
Linen
These are man-made fibers produced from either animal or vegetable non-fibrous proteins which have been reconfigured to take up a fibrous form to emulate the natural protein fibers wool or silk.
Regenerated Protein Fibers
How many holes in the spinneret does a mono filament have?
1.5
Effectiveness of finish will withstand throughout the life of the fabric.
PERMANENT FINISHES
A cellulosic fiber, long, soft, shiny vegetable fiber that can be spun into coarse, strong threads.
Jute
The strongest natural fiber in the world.
Hemp
A specialty fiber used for chemical and thermal resistance.
Sulfur
A kind of test that can be used to identify a fiber’s general chemical composition, cellulose, protein, mineral, or synthetic.
Burn test
A method of removing color to textiles using bleach.
Bleaching
Give at least 2 mordants used in dyeing.
TAWAS/ALUM, SALT, VINEGAR, SULFUR