About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 101. Chapters: African textiles, Alnage, Baldachin, Bamboo textiles, Basha (tarpaulin), Batting (material), Beetling, Biotextile, Bleachfield, Burnout (clothing), Calendering, Cellulose fiber, Colour fastness, Cosmetotextile, Decatising, Delustrant, Dermotextile, Desizing, Devore, Dyeing, Eneas, Fabrikoid, Fish fur, Fly (tent), Fulling, Glossary of textile manufacturing, Glossary of textile terminology, Handle-o-Meter, Heatsetting, History of clothing and textiles, Hydroentanglement, Indienne, Irish linen, IWTO, Kiswah, Linenopolis, Linens, Linen tester, List of fabric names, List of textile fibres, Māori traditional textiles, Matelasse, Mercery, Meritas (cloth), Palepai, Sumatran ships cloth, Pidan (textile), Pile (textile), Pot-holder, Pua Kumbu, Singe, Snag (textiles), Stasilon, Stone washing, Straw plaiting, Tapis (Indonesian weaving style), Technical textile, Tenacity, Tenterground, Textile-reinforced materials, Textiles of Mexico, Textiles of Oaxaca, Textile bleaching, Textile Labelling Act (Germany), Textile manufacturing by pre-industrial methods, Textile preservation, Textile recycling, Texturizing, Ticking, Timeline of clothing and textiles technology, Tog (unit), Toran, Tulle bi telli, Units of textile measurement, Webbing, Woven fabric, Yarn. Excerpt: The manufacture of textiles is one of the oldest of human technologies. To make textiles, the first requirement is a source of fibre from which a yarn can be made, primarily by spinning. (Both fibre and fiber are used in this article.) The yarn is processed by knitting or weaving, which turns yarn into cloth. The machine used for weaving is the loom. For decoration, the process of colouring yarn or the finished material is dyeing. For more information of the various steps, see textile manufacturing. AbsorbencyA measure of how much amount of water a fabric can...
