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61 Downproofs
No special cloth is known by this term as a wide range of fabrics are called downproofs including satins, sateens, twills, etc. The name simply means that the material is intended for use as a bed covering of the " eiderdown " character. -
62 Dress Linens
All-flax yarns are used for these dress fabrics, the yarns are boiled and bleached, and used in self-colours. Colours are always pale shades of pink, blue, hello, fawn and creams. Single and doubled yarns vary according to quality. Weaves are mostly plains, matts and twills. -
63 Duster Cloth
Dress goods fabric piece-dyed and woven on 18/22 shafts in designs made from a combination of twills. The patterns repeat on 70 to 84 ends and 20 to 36 picks; 84 reed, 70 picks per inch, 2/28's worsted warp, 16's to 20's worsted weft, 56-in. in loom to finish 52-in. -
64 Frocs
A French term formerly used for the coarse woollen twills made for peasants' garments. -
65 Gambroons
A plain matting cotton cloth shipped to India and used for clothing, hangings and many domestic purposes. About 26-in. in width, 60 ends and 60 picks per inch, 16's T., 16's W., or 58-ends and 56 picks per inch, 14's T., 12's W. The colours are varied, but some are warped 2 blue, 2 black, two ends to a heald eye. A linen fabric also known as Gambroons is much used for light-weight suitings, for warm climates. It is made in 3-shaft or 4-shaft twills and either white or cream. About 72 ends and 72 picks per inch, 80's T., and 80's W. linen. -
66 Gourlieh
A coarse cotton cloth, in twills or small spot effects, used in Turkey for making the long outer robe. -
67 Harvards
A shirting cloth woven with the 2 & 2 twill weave and with coloured stripes, The genuine Harvard has the 2 & 2 weave all through. There are many so-called Harvards in which stripes of plain, matting and other twills are used. A good quality is made 64 ends and 60 picks per inch.
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68 Herringbone Twill
This is a twill weave also known as Feather, Arrow-head or Pointed Twill. It is formed by reversing direction of the twill so that adjacent stripes have the twills radiating in two directions from a centre line in the manner of herring bones. -
69 Imitation Backed Fabrics
This class of fabric is largely used in the wool industry for making coatings and dress fabrics of a medium weight. They are really the backs of corkscrew weaves stitched to produce reasonable imitations of common twills on the back of the fabric. All ends and picks weave on both sides of the cloth. Most simple weaves can be re-arranged to produce an appearance similar to a backed cloth and all weaves arranged on the warp principle will be applicable for the weft principle when turned round.Dictionary of the English textile terms > Imitation Backed Fabrics
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70 Jamawar
(Lit. a gown piece). The native term for the wool fabric made at Cashmere of Pashmina wool in 54-in. width and 33/4 yard lengths. The weave is usually plain, but twills are sometimes used. There are many varieties, as follows. These are in value order, the first being the most expensive: - Chaporast, Kaddhar, Thaldar, Duazdehkhat, Duazdeh-Rang, Dogul, Kalmkar, Gulisant, Khatherast, Redabutha, Lakheangur, Guleparwane, Barghebed, Islimi, Marpech, Mehramat, Safed, Sabzkar and Kaynamu. -
71 Lined Work
A twill effect made by a combination of broken diamond twills such as the birds' eye. -
72 Linings
There are many fabrics used for linings for coats, dresses, gowns, mantles, etc. The most important are as below and each is described under its name: - Alpaca, Beatrice twill, botany, check, Italians, cotton, moire, glissades, lastings, Levantines, lustre, melange, moire silk, rainproof, serge, shot brocade, silk, rayon, taffeta, twills, union, Venetian. -
73 Masloff
Wide, heavy Russian woollen dress fabrics, twills or plain weave. Widths from 48-in. upwards, the yarns are coarse and the fabric is used for winter clothing. -
74 Nainsook Checks
An all-cotton coloured cloth in satin or twill check designs in the U.S.A. Usually 32-in. wide, 70 ends and 68 picks per inch, 32's warp, 40's weft. The design has small squares of plain, bordered in warp and weft by narrow satin stripes. Variations are obtained by various twills in the stripes. -
75 Near-Silk
A lining fabric made from all mercerised cotton. The term is an American one and is generally applied to all types of fabrics produced from mercerised yarns, plains, twills, spots, etc., and in many qualities. -
76 Palmering
A finishing process for imparting a mellow and soft handle to fabrics such as satins, taffetas and many lining twills. The apparatus consists of a large steam-heated cylinder covered with an endless felt or apron. Another endless apron covers the first for about three-quarters of the distance. The fabric is guided between these two continuous felt aprons and the heat, plus the smoothness of the aprons gives the fabric a calendering effect which cannot be obtained on ordinary calenders. This mellowness can by regulated by the manipulation of the heat and pressure. The Palmer unit is attached to the finishing end of the tentering frame. This process is largely used on rayon fabrics in America. -
77 Piquete
Corded French vesting made on 8 shafts and 4 picks to a repeat in fancy twills. -
78 Puritan
An alpaca lining fabric in which coloured and grey yarns arc used. Made with cotton warp and alpaca weft in plain or fancy twill weaves. Qualities vary from 56 to 70 ends per inch, 68 to 90 picks per inch, 2/50's, 2/80's and 2/90's cotton warp and 20's to 30's alpaca weft. The plain weave styles are usually of lower quality than the twills. -
79 Ramie Cloths
These are extremely strong, they can be bleached white or dyed in the most delicate colours, and are smooth and very durable. Usually woven in plains or twills. They comprise fabrics for tapestries, furnishings, towellings. For waterproof fabrics ramie is very suitable as the fibre offers great resistance to moisture. -
80 Ras De Florence
Fine woollen men's wear fabric in fancy coloured twills.
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