High-visibility clothing is any clothing worn that has highly reflective properties or a color that is easily discernable from any background. Orange hunting vests are a popular example of...
Indentation Load Deflection (ILD) refers to the firmness of a piece of foam. The lab puts a 4" x 15" x 15" piece of foam on a flat surface. Then a round metal plate, 8" in diameter, pushes down on...
Yarn Production:
Drafting is an important process in yarn production that involves pulling fibers or filaments through a series of rollers or other mechanisms in order to align them and create a...
A substrate refers to the underlying material or fabric on which various processes, treatments, or coatings are applied. It serves as the foundation or base upon which the desired functional or...
Mordants are after-fixing chemicals essential to impart some degree of colour fastness performance to most natural dyes and some synthetic ones. They are typically metal salts and therefore decidedly...