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| Worth Street Textile Market Rules (1986) |
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| A standard code of practices for marketing textile materials in the United States. |
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| Planar structure consisting of yarns or fibers, solutions, fabrics, or any combination of these. Besides fashion, fabrics are used for trims, elastics, linings, and support in the finished product. |
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| Determine the % by weight of each generic fiber present in blends. |
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| Using several procedures until enough information has been obtained to make a reasonable assesment as to the fiber type(s) present. |
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| Describes the size of the yarn. Sometimes referred to as yarn count. |
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| AKA: Fixed length systems; include denier and tex. With these systems, the yarn number is the same as the weight of a specified length of yarn. |
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| AKA: Fixed weight systems; include cotton, woolen, worsted, and other natural fiber systems. With these susyems, the yarn number is the number of yarn lengths (or hanks) of a given measure that weigh one pound. |
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| Describes the number of times the fibers in the yarn turn around the lengthwide central axis per unit measure. (Varies with the type of yarn and the intended end use.) |
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| Irregularities within the yarn that are not deliberately a part of the yarn. |
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| Used to descrive the grestest degree of irregularity that is acceptable in materials or finished products. |
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| The technique used to produce the fabric. |
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| The number of components in the fabric per unit measure. A common measure is fabric count. |
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| Short for "Fabric Count"; the number of yarns in the lengthwise and crosswise direction of the fabric in one inch or centimeter. |
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| Fabric Mass Per Unit Area |
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| Referred to as weight; is an important factor in determining fabric amount, cost, and quality. |
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| Weigh less than 4 ounces per square yard |
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