PASTING (Knit)

The operation in which two pieces of Atlas cloth are stuck together back to back to make a duplex fabric.

See Two-plex. ———————— Warp knit fabric made on a two-needle bed machine which gives heavy weight fabric, thus making pasting for duplex weights unnecessary.

A type of glove fabric made by pasting two Atlas fabrics back to back. Mostly used for winter gloves.

The operations used to prepare knitted glove fabric for manufacture and these are usually shrinking, dyeing, drying, sueding and pasting. ———————— The imparting of special characteristics to certain makes of cotton goods to give them a resemblance to linen, wool, or silk. Finishing is an extensive and complicated art; and the various methods of working are modified according to whether white, grey, coloured, or printed goods are under consideration. Many forms of treatment call for the provision of specially constructed machines. The several main operations that are variously called into use may be classified in the following manner, though order of procedure is necessarily dependent on circumstances: - Singeing, raising, shearing, brushing, steaming, starching, calendering (various forms) impregnating, breaking-down, damping, mangling, moireing, embossing, stentering and stretching, doubling, measuring, plaiting, marking, pressing and packing. Many of the single operations are likewise modified according to the quality of the cloth and the nature of the finish desired. For instance, that of calendering takes many forms from the comparatively simple process of exerting pressure on the cloth for giving a slightly smooth surface, to more complicated ones and to " schreinering " for a very high gloss.

Warp knit fabric made on a two-needle bed machine which gives heavy weight fabric, thus making pasting for duplex weights unnecessary.