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Industry term applied to small furniture items such as cocktail tables, end tables, night stands and pull-up chairs.
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Spun Silk's Evolution: From Ancient China to Modern Fabric
Spun Silk: Discovering the Fabric of RoyaltySpun Silk embodies the luxurious allure of silk with a more versatile and forgiving texture. This textile is the product of shorter silk fibersthose not...
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A woven is a cloth formed by weaving. It only stretches in the bias directions (between the warp and weft directions), unless the threads are elastic. Woven cloth usually frays at the edges, unless...
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A color match between physically different stimuli, ie a match between stimuli with different reflectances or spectral power distributions. Such stimuli that match (for an observer and a viewing...
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A single filament of a manufactured fiber, usually made in a denier higher than 14. Monofilaments are usually spun singularly, rather than extruded as a group of filaments through a spinneret and...
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Sanforising is a textile finishing process that is used to reduce the shrinkage of cotton and other fabrics. The process was invented in the early 20th century by a man named Sanford Lockwood Cluett,...
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Tuck is a type of decorative stitch or pattern that is commonly used in textile design. It is created by folding or pleating fabric in a particular way and then stitching it in place. This creates a...
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Rupture of individual filaments (usually during winding or weaving) that results in the appearance of a fibrous or hairy surface, which may be localised or general, in a fabric made from flat...
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Fasteners with two layers: a "hook" side, which is a piece of fabric covered with tiny plastic hooks, and a "loop" side, which is covered with even smaller and "hairier" plastic loops.. When the two...
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