alpaca+wool

The animal that provides the finest wool in the world with hairs only half as thick as fine merino wool. The vicuna is one of the camel tribe and is a native of Southern Peru. Its scientific name is Lama Vicunia. It is a graceful swift little animal like a small antelope. The annual production is estimated at 10,000-lb. to 12,000-lb. Weight for weight it is said to be the warmest of all wools. Its natural colour is dark tobacco colour of good fastness. It dyes like wool, but requires more dye to attain a given depth of tone. It is capable of imparting the utmost smoothness, softness and closeness to fine black coatings and is used thus by Bradford and other manufacturers. ———————— Another species or variety of the Genus Auchenia. See Alpaca (extract wool)

(See knitting). All yarns used for knitting are termed hosiery yarns in Leicester, but in America only yarns actually used for knitted footwear come under this term. These yarns are much softer than required for weaving. Miscellaneous Yarns - Goat wools, such as llama and alpaca are employed in spinning. yarns for the knitting trade. Vicuna and camel yarns are used to a limited extent. Ramie yarn is specially employed for knitting gas mantle fabrics. Soft spun flax yams have been used for making underwear fabric. Chenille and other manufactured threads are used to a small extent in warp knitting. Composite yarns, such as union yarns - spun from a mixture of wool and cotton fibres; cordon yarns - cotton and worsted singles, doubled together; wool and rayon or spun silk, cotton and rayon or spun silk are largely used to produce self or two-colour effects. Fancy yarns, such as slub yams, voiles, and curled and loop yarns are also employed. Hosiery Yarns (Cotton) include condenser, hosiery, condenser lisle thread, mercerised and sewing cottons. Condenser yarns are spun in coarse counts from low-grade cotton, Indian and American. They are carded, condensed and mule spun, and possess little twist. Hosiery cotton yarns vary considerably in counts and qualities, practically all varieties of Indian, American and Egyptian being used in varying proportions to obtain suitable mixture for quality and price. Cheaper yarns are carded and mule spun. American and Egyptian cotton yarns are combed mainly with the object of removing seed particles. High-class Egyptian and Sea Islands cotton yarns are super-combed. The chief features of a hosiery cotton yam should be: (1) Regularity; (2) cleanliness; (3) fullness. Regularity prevents the making of cloudy fabric, showing thick and thin places. Cleanliness is essential, as the seed particles clog the eyelet hole in the yam guides and cause breakages. Fullness is desirable to cover the loop interstices. Elasticity and pliability are quite as essential as tensile strength. Yams are usually soft spun and if two-fold soft doubled, average twists in two-fold being 2/10's 6¹/₂T., 2/20's 8¹/₂T., 2/30's 10T., 2/40's 16T., 2/80's 20T. Softer twist less 25 to 30 per cent of average (T= turns per inch). Lisle thread is a comparatively hard-twisted and doubly-gassed thread in which there are no projecting fibres. It is always of a two-fold character, and the doubling twist varies from 24 to 34 turns per inch in 2/60's. It is used largely in the manufacture of ladies' hose tops and feet and for lace hosiery. Mercerised yams are used largely in the fancy trade, a comparatively soft twist again being employed. Sewing cottons for seaming, linking and making-up are specially prepared in two to six cord open and reverse twist. Woollen and Worsted Yarns include lamb's wool, wheeling, skein yarns, gala yams (woollens), worsted, crossbreds, fingering, cashmere, dry spun botany (see under each name). Worsted and crossbred yarns of various qualities are used. These yams are spun softly with " hosiery twist." The drawing may be open, cone or French, and the spinning may take place on cap, ring or flyer frames. The chief essentials of hosiery yarn are softness of fibre, fullness, minimum of twist consistent with the requisite tensile strength, regularity, pliability and elasticity. Cashmere Yarns, as used in the knitted goods industry, are spun from short, loose and weak wools as well as from better qualities by French drawing and mule spinning. A small proportion of real cashmere is used for outer garments. In recent years nylon yarns have been largely employed.

These are unions of cotton and wool - usually cotton warp and Alpaca, mohair, or other lustre wool weft. Such fabrics as alpacas, Brilliantines, Glaces, Sicilians, etc., are lustres. A typical lustre cloth is made plain weave 50-in. wide, 40 ends and 48 picks per inch, 2/80's dyed cotton warp and 16's mohair weft. Reeded one end in a dent. The warp is dyed black. This cloth is a Sicilian.

Wool term for lustre wool such as Lincoln and Leicester which makes strong yarns for fabrics where much wear and strength are required. Single and two-fold counts are produced up to 30's and 2/36's or 2/40's. Mohair and alpaca wools are also termed lustres, and all are worsted yarns.

Light weight very open mesh shawls, knitted of fine Shetland wool, and made with a scalloped edge. Often also has camel, goat or alpaca hair mixed with the wool.

Light weight very open mesh shawls, knitted of fine Shetland wool, and made with a scalloped edge. Often also has camel, goat or alpaca hair mixed with the wool.

Ex: It was produced in earthenware, metalwork and bone china and in its heyday was used by the great transatlantic liners and by hotel and restaurant chains.

* arte del metal = metal art.

* chapa de metal = sheet iron.

* cortar metal = shear.

* de metal = iron.

* detector de metales = metal detector.

* evaluación de metales = metallurgical assaying.

* fatiga del metal = metal fatigue.

* guarnición de metal = metal furniture.

* huelga del metal = metalworkers' strike.

* metal de imprenta = type-metal [typemetal].

* metal derretido = molten metal.

* metal fundido = molten metal.

* metal grabado = chased metal.

* metal para estereotipia = stereotype metal.

* metal pesado = heavy metal.

* metal precioso = precious metal.

* metal tipográfico = type-metal [typemetal], typemetal.

* persiana de metal = security shutter.

metal sustantivo masculino

metal noble or precioso precious metal


metal sustantivo masculino
1 metal
2 (dinero) el vil metal, filthy lucre
3 Mús brass
' metal' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
batir
- chatarra
- cierre
- cromo
- detector
- detectora
- doblar
- dócil
- esculpir
- fatiga
- férrea
- férreo
- forjar
- fraguar
- fusión
- hierro
- hoja
- horno
- inscripción
- labrar
- labrada
- labrado
- licuación
- oro
- placa
- plata
- platino
- plomo
- pulir
- resplandecer
- resplandor
- somier
- talla
- tallar
- templar
- trabajar
- viruta
- acero
- alpaca
- baño
- brillante
- brillar
- bronceado
- chapa
- chapado
- cincelar
- cobre
- comal
- contraer
- corroer
English:
badge
- base
- bend
- brass
- brassy
- carve
- cast
- chisel
- chrome
- chromium
- conduct
- dent
- erode
- erosion
- expand
- expansion
- forge
- gate
- girder
- grommet
- laminated
- lead
- melt
- melt down
- metal
- metal detector
- metalwork
- mold
- molten
- mould
- plate
- polish
- rattle
- rolled
- shaving
- sheet
- shine
- shrinkage
- silver
- spike
- splinter
- stamp
- strip
- tin
- warp
- wire wool
- beat
- buckle
- buff
- cap
Hum metal blanco white metal;

A disease known also as "Wool-sorters' Disease". Mohair, camels' hair, alpaca and cashmere are most liable to convey infection. Both men and animals are subject to this infectious disease, which develops a virulent ulcer and high fever. It localises in the skin or lungs, and sometimes in the intestines. It is not always fatal. When confined to the skin alone, a cure is usually effected.

A dress cloth woven from alpaca warp and dyed wool weft in twill or dobby effects.