| A | B |
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| quality standards | Product ratings according to levels of defects |
| novelty fabrics | Fashion fabrics that change with style trends |
| mechanical finishes | Finishes that affect the size, appearance, and surface of fabrics |
| chemical finishes | Finishes that become part of fabrics through reactions with the fibers |
| applied design | Surface design added onto a fabric |
| structural design | “Built-in” texture or interest to fabrics when they are manufactured |
| hand | The way fabrics feel to the touch |
| converters | Businesses that convert greige goods to finished fabrics and distribute those fabrics |
| performance standards | Product ratings according to suitability for specific end uses |
| staple fabrics | Commodity textile products made continuously each year, with little or no change in construction or finish |
| weaving | laying two sets of yarns at RIGHT ANGLES to each other |
| Selvage | strong, will not ravel, and runs along both edges of woven fabrics |
| gauge | The number of stitches, or loops, per inch in a knitted fabric |
| cost-effective | benefits outweigh the expense |
| textile firms | In the future, these will have to restructure to have FEWER levels of management |
| The appearance and performance | the _______ of fabrics depend on their fiber content and type of yarn, finishing, fabric construction |
| Warp YARNS | form the lengthwise grain of woven fabrics |
| twill weave | a diagonal wale results from short “floats” that pass over two or more yarns at regular |
| Terry cloth towels | looped pile fabric |
| Yarns | Knitting is a fabric construction method of looping these together |
| on the West Coast, especially in California | largest concentration of U.S. knitted fabric producers |
| Nonwovens | made from a compact web of fibers, not yarns held together with a combination of moisture, heat, chemicals, friction, and/or pressure have no grainline, are relatively inexpensive, and are often used for disposable purposes |
| bleaching | chemical finishing process that removes any natural color from fibers or fabrics |
| Colorfast | the color in a fabric will not fade or change with normal expected use and care |
| printing | general process for adding color, pattern, or design to the surface of fabrics |
| Microencapsulation | add tiny particles into fabrics that slowly release substances and add performance advantages |
| Six Sigma | quality program that measures and improves the quality of companies with mathematical (statistical) analysis |
| National Textile Association | trade group that includes weavers, knitters, other fabric-making companies, as well as firms that dye, print, and finish fabrics |
| True bias | fabric grainline that runs at a 45 degree angle, halfway between the lengthwise and crosswise grains |
| nap | A layer of fiber ends raised from a fabric surface, that appears different when viewed from different directions |
