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Showing posts with label textile raw material. Show all posts
Showing posts with label textile raw material. Show all posts
Sunday, 17 March 2019

Fiber - Specific Gravity

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Fiber Specific Gravity Acetate Rayon 1.30-1.33 Acrylic 1.14-1.18 PVC 1.38-1.70 Glass Fiber 2.50 Modacrylic 1.31-1.3...
Tuesday, 1 May 2018

What is the difference of Modal from Viscose

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Modal is type of Rayon, however it is different from Viscose in many aspects. Viscose fiber, is one of the most widely used man-made fibe...
Saturday, 20 February 2016

Word Origins of Some Textile Terms

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Cotton Cotton originated in Arbic qutn, the name for cotton plant. Silk Word silk originated in Chinese si.   Greek called Silk trade...
Saturday, 31 October 2015

What is TR Fabric

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TR fabric refers to Terry Rayon, a fabric made with a polyester/viscose blend yarn. Generally it is used for suitings. Buy my books at Am...
Wednesday, 12 August 2015

Is Art Silk a type of Silk ?

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This term made popular by catalog-centric websites is a misnomer. Art Silk in the technical circles, is a synonym for rayon. However, now...
Tuesday, 11 August 2015

What is the difference between Faux Georgette and Georgette

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Faux georgette is a nice way of saying that a fabric is made of polyester or nylon Georgette. This term is used very frequently in e-comm...
Sunday, 21 December 2014

Difference Among Pure Silk, Blended Silk and Part Silk Fabrics

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As per BIS (Bureau of Indian Standard) the following definitions will apply. Please note that composition of only ground fabric or base fab...
Thursday, 20 September 2012

Learning about Viscose, Modal and Tencel

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The production process of the three fibers has been convered elsewhere in the blog. Here I would like to discuss some of the properties use...
Sunday, 29 July 2012

Cotton Price Trends in India

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Indian Textile Mills are ramping up imports of cotton Source: seedrack.com via Melyssa on Pinterest M ills in India, the world...
Tuesday, 22 November 2011

A Layman's Review of Silk

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What is Silk Silk is a continuous protein filament secreted by specific types of caterpillars commonly known as silkworms. It is the most l...
Saturday, 15 October 2011

Difference between Blended Fabrics and Union Fabrics

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Blended Fabrics are made up of blended yarns. Blended yarns contain fibers of different composition in fixed proportions. Thus a blended fab...
Saturday, 4 June 2011

Bamboo Fiber- I

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Bamboo is a regenerated cellulosic fiber. There are three types of bamboo fibers: 1. Pure Bamboo 2. Bamboo Charcoal 3. Bamboo Viscose 1. P...
Sunday, 24 April 2011

Linen and Ramie

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These nuggets of wisdom about Linen Fabric I have gathered from the website of Jayashree Textiles of Aditya Birla Group: 1.Linen was exte...
Sunday, 10 April 2011

More about Tussar or Tussah or Tassar

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Looking for Tussar, I came across several other interesting features. Some of these are as follows: 1. China exports two types of Tussar S...
Thursday, 2 September 2010

More about Silkworms and Silk fiber- Mulberry, Muga, Tasar and Eri

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Silkworm belong to the order Lepidoptera . They belong to family of Bombycidae and Saturniidae . Under Bomycidae, we have Bombyx Mori or c...