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Fabrics and Design U
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Carding | a process that pulls the cotton fibers from the lap, cleans them, and straightens them |
| combing | a process that makes fibers more parallel and removes any short fibers. this makes smoother stronger yarns called slivers |
| Cotton | a natural cellulosic fiber obtained from the cotton plant |
| Drawing | a process that combines many carded slivers of cotton into a single drawn sliver, which is then stretched |
| Fabric | a textile product made by weaving yarns together |
| Filament | a long continuous strand of fiber |
| Jute | a rough coarse natural fiber that más a natural odor. used in burlap |
| linen | a cloth make from the cellulosic fiber called flax |
| Ramie | a fiber often called china grass. it comes from a shrubby plant grown in China and India |
| Recycled Wool | Fabric made from previously made wool fabrics |
| silk | a natural protein fiber obtained by unwinding the cocoons of silk worms |
| Spinneret | a small nozzle with many tiny holes through which a thick liquid is extruded, making manufactured fibers |
| Staple Fiber | short strand of fiber |
| Virgin wool | the fibers have never been used in a garment or fabric |
| wool | a natural protein fiber made from the fleece of sheep or lambs |
| wool products labeling act | a law that required any textile product that contains some wool be labeled with the percentage and type of wool present and its country of origin |
| Woolen yarns | wool yarns made from short fibers |
| worsted yarns | wool yarns made from combed sliver using longer fibers |
| yarn | a continuous strand made of fibers |
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