Types of Textiles

Question 1

What is textile?

Answer 1

A textile is usually considered to be a woven material, however, in recent times have included materials that are not woven like rope.

Question 2

What is a filament fibre?

Answer 2

a type of fiber having indefinite or extreme length.

Question 3

What is a staple fibre?

Answer 3

a type of fibre that is long enough to spin

Question 4

What is a flock fibre?

Answer 4

a type of fibre too short to spin.

Question 5

What is a fibre fly?

Answer 5

a type of fibre that is extremely short and airbone.

Question 6

What is textile trace ?

Answer 6

evidence that is composed of micro traces which must be microscopically

Question 7

What is textile end product?

Answer 7

these are macroscopic evidence which requires textile engineering.

Question 8

What is textile pattern traces?

Answer 8

patterns traced onto and from textiles.

Question 9

What are the classifications of textiles?

Answer 9

1. Apparel Textiles
2. Household Textiles
3. Technical Textiles

Question 10

What are apparel textiles?

Answer 10

Outerwear and underwear, sports wear and leisure wear

Question 11

What are household textiles?

Answer 11

furnishings, upholstery, floorcoverings

Question 12

What are technical textiles?

Answer 12

used for their technical performance and functional properties.

Question 13

What are subcategories of technical fibres?

Answer 13

medicial, geo, safety, transport, industrial

Question 14

Ways of gaining access to fibre market information?

Answer 14

1. Creating computerised databases
2. Industrial enquires

Question 15

Categories of threads?

Answer 15

single yarns
multiple wound yarns
folded yarns
cabled yarns
textured yarns
fancy yarns
fibrillated yarns

Question 16

Single yarns

Answer 16

are the simplest form of threads and are produced either from staple fibres or from filaments

Question 17

Folded (plied) yarn

Answer 17

include all threads in which two or more single yarns are twisted together in one operation.

Question 18

Multiple wound yarn

Answer 18

made by combining, without twisting, two or more component yarns together

Question 19

Cabled yarns

Answer 19

all threads which are composed of two or more folded yarns twisted together in one or more operations.

Question 20

Texturing is done to what kind of fibres?

Answer 20

Filament fibres

Question 21

What is texturing methods?

Answer 21

Texturing method is a process which introduces durable crimps, coils, loops and distorations.

Question 22

What are fancy yarns?

Answer 22

These are single and folded yarns produces irregularities in their contruction.

Question 23

Bouclé yarns

Answer 23

compounds yarns comprising a twisted core with an effect yarn around it, producing wavy projections on its surface.

Question 24

What is the fibrillation process ?

Answer 24

The process of splitting fibres longitudinally into a network of interconnected fibres

Question 25

What is the fibrillation process ?

Answer 25

The process of splitting fibres longitudinally into a network of interconnected fibres

Question 26

What are the two twist direction?

Answer 26

S or Z twist

Question 27

What is twist frequency?

Answer 27

This is the amount of twist per unit of length of yarn.

Question 28

Categories of Textiles

Answer 28

Wooven and Knitted Fabrics

Question 29

Types of weaves?

Answer 29

the plain weave, twill weave and satin (atlas) weave

Question 30

What is a plain weave?

Answer 30

Plain weave is the simplest and most frequently used interlacing weave and has the smallest repeat.

Question 31

What is a Satin/Atlas weave?

Answer 31

This weave produces a smooth surface, free from twill

Question 32

What is a twill weave?

Answer 32

Twill weave is a weave that repeats on three or more ends and picks.

Question 33

What are Woven Fabrics?

Answer 33

fabrics composed of rectangularly interlaced threads.

Question 34

What are knitted fabrics?

Answer 34

Knitting is the creation of fabric by interlocking loops of yarn, either by machine or by hand

Question 35

What are the three parts of basic knitted whole loop?

Answer 35

1. legs 2. shanks 3. needle loop

Question 36

What is a strand?

Answer 36

a basic rope component made by twisting a number of yarns together

Question 37

What is a rope?

Answer 37

flexible textile product that is made up of > 2 strands twisted (or plaited) together.

Question 38

What is twine?

Answer 38

flexible textile product that is made up of > 1 strands twisted together.

Question 39

What is a core?

Answer 39

central yarn that, while not structurally combined with a rope or twine

Question 40

what is a lay?

Answer 40

the direction of twist of the component strands of a helical rope or twine

Question 41

What is it meant by the length of a lay?

Answer 41

one complete turn of a strand that is part of a rope or twine.