What is "Napping" - Definition & Explanation
The raising of fibers on the face of the goods by means of teasels or rollers covered with card clothing (steel wires) that are about one inch in height. Action by either method raises the protruding fibers and causes the finished fabric to provide greater warmth to the wearer, makes the cloth more compact, causes the fabric to become softer in hand or smoother in feel, increases durability and covers the minute areas between the interlacings or the warp and the filling.
Some more terms: Stretch in warpRefers to a woven fabric with elastic properties in the warp direction only, usually the result of using spandex yarn in the...
Back Yoke
A piece of fabric that connects the back of a garment to the shoulders. This allows the garment to lay flat and drape...
Moire/Watermarked
A corded fabric, usually made from silk or one of the manufactured fibers, which has a distinctive water-marked wavy pattern on the face of the fabric where bright-and-dim effects are...
Thermal bonding
Part of a production route for making nonwovens in which a web, which must contain some meltable synthetic fibres, is heated by a hot gas or by calendering. The fibres melt and form inter-fibre...
Air texturing
A process in which yarns are over-fed through a turbulent air stream so that entangled loops are formed in the....
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