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2.01 Vocabulary 12/9
Apparel and textile I
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| FIber | A fine hair-like structure that can be spun into yarn and made into textile products. |
| Staple | Short lengths of fibers ….1 ½ to 8 inches long. |
| Filaments | Longer continuous lengths, measured in yards or meters. |
| Textile | Any cloth or goods produced by weaving, knitting, or felting. Comes from the Latin word texture, which means to weave. |
| Fabric | Cloth or other material produced by weaving or knitting fibers. |
| Apparel | Clothing, dress, garments or attire that people wear. |
| Neutral fiber | Any hairlike raw material directly obtained from an animal, vegetable, or mineral source and convertible, after spinning into yarns can be made into woven cloth. |
| Cellulosic | Made from cellulose - the fibrous substance in plant life - cotton, flax (linen) & hemp. |
| Protein | Come from animal sources - wool (sheep), silk (worms), angora, cashmere & mohair. |
| Manufactured fiber | Man made by combining molecules of nitrogen, oxygen, hydrogen and carbon into staple or filament fibers - rayon, acetate, nylon, olefin, polyester, spandex, lyocell |
| Abrasion Resistance | A worn spot that can develop when fibers rub against something. |
| Pilling | Tiny balls of fiber on the fabric. |
| Absorbency | Ability to take in moisture. |
| Durability | Refers to how long you will be able to wear or use a particular garment or item. |
| Hand | The way a fiber, yarn, or fabric feels when handled. |
| Elasticity | The ability to increase in length when under tension (elongation) and then return to the original length when released (recovery) |
| Resiliency | Able to spring or bounce back into shape after crushing or wrinkling. |
| Strength | Ability to withstand tension or pulling. |
| Warmth | Ability of a fiber to maintain body heat of wearer. |
| Wicking | Ability to draw moisture away from the body so the moisture can evaporate. |
| Weave | The process of interlacing one or more sets of yarns at right angles on a loom. |
| Wrap yarns | Yarns that run lengthwise (up & down) in woven fabric. |
| Weft yarns | Yarns that run crosswise in woven fabric (right to left - sound like "weft"). |
| Woven fabric | Fabric formed by weaving. |
| Plain weave | The simplest weave in which the weft (crosswise) yarn is passed over then under each warp (lengthwise) yarn. |
| Twill weave | Very strong weave in which the weft yarn is passed over and under one, two or three warp yarns. This weave produces a diagonal design on the surface - denim. |
| Satin weave | A weak weave that produces a smooth, shiny-surfaced fabric. |
| Grain | The direction of the lengthwise and crosswise yarns in a woven fabric. |
| Bias | The diagonal grain of a fabric. The bias provides the greatest stretch in a woven fabric. |
| Pile | The raised surface or nap of a fabric, which is made of upright loops or strands of yarn. |
| Knit | The process of pulling loops of yarns through other loops to create interlocking rows of stitches. |
| Wales | Yarns that run in the lengthwise direction, like a warp yarn in woven fabrics |
| Courses | Yarns that run in the crosswise direction, like the weft yarns in woven fabrics. |
| Weft knit | Knit made with only one yarn. |
| Wrap knit | A knit made with several yarns on flat knitting machines. Multiple yarns are looped together to produce a run-resistant knitted fabric. |
| Seamless knitting | Involves the production of a whole garment in one piece on a knitting machine so little to no sewing is required. |
| Nonwoven fabrics | Fabrics made from fibers not yarns. The fibers are held together by a combination of moisture, heat, chemicals and/or pressure. |