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2. Glossary of textile manufacturing - Wikipedia

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   It is usually made from either wool, wool and cotton, or wool and synthetic fabric. flax Flax fiber is soft, lustrous and flexible. It is stronger than cotton fiber but less elastic. The best grades are used for linen fabrics such as damasks, lace and sheeting. Coarser grades are used for the manufacturing of twine and rope. frieze

3. Textile manufacturing - Wikipedia

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   Wool that has never been used is known as virgin wool and can be mixed with wool that has been recovered from rags. "Shoddy" is the term for recovered wool that is not matted, while "mungo" comes from felted wool. Extract is recovered chemically from mixed cotton/wool fabrics. The fleece is shorn in one piece from the sheep. Ideally, the wool ...

4. Bathrobe - Wikipedia

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   Flannel: Flannel is a soft woven fabric, made from loosely spun yarn, usually cotton or wool. Terrycloth: Terrycloth is a pile fabric, usually woven of cotton, with uncut loops on both sides, used for bath towels and robes. The longer and denser the loops are, the more absorbent the bathrobes are.

5. Clothing industry - Wikipedia

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   Clothing factory in Montreal, Quebec, 1941. Clothing industry or garment industry summarizes the types of trade and industry along the production and value chain of clothing and garments, starting with the textile industry (producers of cotton, wool, fur, and synthetic fibre), embellishment using embroidery, via the fashion industry to apparel retailers up to trade with second-hand clothes and ...

6. Textile - Wikipedia

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   Fibers from pulpwood trees, cotton, rice, hemp, and nettle are used in making paper. Cotton, flax, jute, hemp, modal, banana, bamboo, lotus, eucalyptus, mulberry, and sugarcane are all used in clothing. [82] [83] [84] Piña (pineapple fiber) and ramie are also fibers used in clothing, generally with a blend of other fibers such as cotton ...

7. List of clothing and footwear shops in the United Kingdom ...

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   Men's, women's and children's clothing and accessories: Started by fashion designer Rattan Chadha and his business partners PK Sen Sharma, Adu Advaney, Suveer Arora, Ronny Lemmens, Horatio Ho and Arun Mehta in the 1970s as a supplier of clothes for department and wholesale shops in the Netherlands.