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  2. Units of textile measurement - Wikipedia

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    Textile fibers, threads, yarns and fabrics are measured in a multiplicity of units.. A fiber, a single filament of natural material, such as cotton, linen or wool, or artificial material such as nylon, polyester, metal or mineral fiber, or human-made cellulosic fibre like viscose, Modal, Lyocell or other rayon fiber is measured in terms of linear mass density, the weight of a given length of ...

  3. Thread (yarn) - Wikipedia

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    Thread is made from a wide variety of materials. Where a thread is stronger than the material that it is being used to join, if seams are placed under strain the material may tear before the thread breaks. Garments are usually sewn with threads of lesser strength than the fabric so that if stressed the seam will break before the garment.

  4. Glossary of textile manufacturing - Wikipedia

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    Fiberglass is material made from extremely fine fibers of glass. It is widely used in the manufacture of insulation and textiles. gossamer A gossamer is a very light, sheer, gauze-like fabric, popular for white wedding dresses and decorations. [15] grogram Grogram is a coarse fabric of silk mixed with wool or with mohair and often stiffened ...

  5. Plain weave - Wikipedia

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    Each weft thread crosses the warp threads by going over one, then under the next, and so on. The next weft thread goes under the warp threads that its neighbor went over, and vice versa. [2] Balanced plain weaves are fabrics in which the warp and weft are made of threads of the same weight (size) and the same number of ends per inch as picks ...

  6. Yarn - Wikipedia

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    Thread is a type of yarn intended for sewing by hand or machine. Modern manufactured sewing threads may be finished with wax or other lubricants to withstand the stresses involved in sewing. [2] Embroidery threads are yarns specifically designed for needlework. Yarn can be made of a number of natural or synthetic materials, and comes in a ...

  7. Linen - Wikipedia

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    Some of these fabrics, woven from hand-spun yarns, were very fine for their day, but are coarse compared with modern linen. [19] When the tomb of the Pharaoh Ramses II, who died in 1213 BC, was discovered in 1881, the linen wrappings were in a state of perfect preservation after more than 3000 years.

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