of sizing a warp was mechanised during the nineteenth century when William Radcliffe and his assistant Thomas Johnson invented the sizing machine. The...
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Sizing or size is a substance that is applied to, or incorporated into, other materials—especially papers and textiles—to act as a protective filler or...
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washing, de-sizing, bleaching, rinsing, dyeing, printing, coating and finishing. Processing is time-consuming. The major portion of water in textile industry...
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Textiles Textile is an umbrella term that includes various fiber-based materials, including fibers, yarns, filaments, threads, and different types of fabric...
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The Jacquard machine (French: [ʒakaʁ]) is a device fitted to a loom that simplifies the process of manufacturing textiles with such complex patterns as...
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(feel) of the finish textile or clothing. The precise meaning depends on context. Fabric after leaving the loom or knitting machine is not readily useable...
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Stenter (category Textile finishing machines)
A stenter (sometimes called a tenter) is a machine used in textile finishing. It serves multiple purposes, including heat setting, drying, and applying...
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The textile industry is primarily concerned with the design, production and distribution of textiles: yarn, cloth and clothing. Cotton is the world's most...
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Meisen (textile). Meisen Kimono exhibit at the Anna Leonowens Gallery, Haruko Watanabe's collection Archived 6 June 2015 at the Wayback Machine Photogallery...
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the diffusion of sewing machine technology and its impact on the clothing industry in the United Kingdom, 1860–1905". Textile History 27.1 (1996): 59–76...
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SNF Floerger (section Textile)
emulsions and powders. SNF also manufactures textile auxiliaries used as antimigrants, dispersants, sizing and fixing agents. SNF manufactures three types...
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most spurred machine tool development. In order of historical emergence, they have been firearms (small arms and artillery); clocks; textile machinery;...
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Sustainable Innovations in Textile Chemical Processes. Springer. p. 25. ISBN 978-981-10-8491-1. Mahapatra, N. N. (2019-01-31). Textile Dyeing. Woodhead Publishing...
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standard sizing, based on body measurements that are intended to fit the greatest proportion of the population. However, while "standard" sizing is generally...
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Bernina International (redirect from Bernina Sewing Machine)
and services for the textile market, primarily household sewing-related products in the fields of embroidery, quilting, home textiles, garment sewing, and...
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The textile and clothing industries provide the most significant source of economic growth in Bangladesh's rapidly developing economy. Exports of textiles...
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Textile printing is the process of applying color to fabric in definite patterns or designs. In properly printed fabrics the colour is bonded with the...
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The manufacture of textiles is one of the oldest of human technologies. To make textiles, the first requirement is a source of fiber from which a yarn...
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Luddite (redirect from Machine-breaking)
The Luddites were members of a 19th-century movement of English textile workers who opposed the use of certain types of automated machinery due to concerns...
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Batch dyeing (category Textiles)
dyeing) is a method of dyeing a textile material. The method involves the gradual transfer of dye from a dye bath to the textile material in the same piece...
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Rage Against the Machine (often abbreviated as RATM or shortened to Rage) was an American rock band formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1991. It consisted...
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Carding (redirect from Card teeth making machine)
In textile production, carding is a mechanical process that disentangles, cleans and intermixes fibres to produce a continuous web or sliver suitable...
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Roller printing, also called cylinder printing or machine printing, on fabrics is a textile printing process patented by Thomas Bell of Scotland in 1783...
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Wet process engineering (category Textile engineering)
the sizing materials that has been used, the cloth may be steeped in a dilute acid and then rinsed, or enzymes may be used to break down the sizing material...
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Fabric treatment (category Textile treatments)
penetration after they are woven. Fabric treatments get applied when the textile itself cannot add other properties. Treatments include, scrim, foam lamination...
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Miroglio (category Textile companies of Italy)
1985. (From 2005 to 2020, the brand has been targeted at the more generous sizing womenswear sector.) By the mid-1980s, the Group was forging a strategic...
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transport. In addition, the emerging machine factories started making machines for production machines as textile machinery, compressors, agricultural...
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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...
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The textile bleaching (or bleaching of textiles) is one of the steps in the textile manufacturing process. The objective of bleaching is to remove the...
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Industrial Revolution (redirect from Age of Machines)
population and population growth. The textile industry was the first to use modern production methods, and textiles became the dominant industry in terms...
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