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Bamboo
Bamboo (Bambusa) a giant woody grass, often reaching a height of forty feet or more, found in the tropical and subtropical regions of the Eastern Hemisphere. It also has been grown successfully in...
Needlepunching
A process for making a nonwoven textile in which a continuous mat of randomly laid fibres or filaments is entangled with barbed needles. This causes matting and the production of a "felt"...
Shrinkage
The reduction in a dimension of a fibre, yarn or fabric.
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Shrinkage may be induced by various treatments, e.g. wetting, steaming, alkali treatment, laundering, dry...
Carded Yarn
A cotton yarn that has been carded but not combed. Carded yarns contain a wider range of fiber lengths and, as a result, are not as uniform or as strong as combed yarns. They are considerably cheaper....