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Definition of TextileTextile has traditionally meant a woven fabric. The term comes from the Latin word texere,

meaning to weave. Many fabrics are still made by weaving yam on a loom. But today, all other

types of fabrics are also considered textiles.

They include knitted goods, felts, laces, nets, and braids. The textile industry also refers to the fibres

and yarns which are used to manufacture fabrics as textiles. Textile mills produce an incredible

variety of fabrics. They turn out huge rolls of soft cotton, warm wool, strong nylon, and otherfabrics. The mills produce these textiles in every colour imaginable and in countless patterns. The

largest share of all textile production goes to garment manufacturers to be made into readytowear

clothing. The secondlargest share is used to make such household products as curtains, blankets,

sheets, and towels.

Textiles are also used in thousands of other products. These products include basketball nets, boat

sails, bookbindings, conveyor belts, fire hoses, flags, insulation materials, mailbags, parachutes,

typewriter ribbons, and umbrellas. !ar manufacturers use fabrics in the carpeting, upholstery, tyres,

and brake linings of cars. "ospitals use such textile products as adhesive tape, bandages, and

surgical thread. #urgeons replace diseased heart arteries with arteries knitted or woven from textile

fibres. Most textiles are produced by twisting fibers into yarns and then knitting or weaving the

yarns into a fabric.

This method of making cloth has been used for thousands of years. But throughout most of that

time, workers did the twisting, knitting, or weaving largely by hand. $ith today%s modern

machinery, textile mills can manufacture as much fabric in a few seconds as it once took workers

weeks to produce by hand.

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Definition of Textile 'iber(sually, fiber means ) long matter in a line that is having enough great strength and softness etc.

to make $oven and *onwoven, and have enough con+ugation ability property that several fibers

stick each other in thread- to make thread.

#TMmerican #ociety for Testing Materials- is displaying re/uired condition of spinning and

weaving fiber as following.

Required conditions of spinning and weaving fiber

'iber intensity must become more than 0g1d.

'iber length must become more than 2 mm at a minimum. 3atio of 'iber length and diameter must become more than 0,444.

5lasticity should be rich.

There must be con+ugation ability.

6lasticity should be rich.

Luster should be good.

Durability should be good.

'iber that length and thickness of fiber are e/ual is good.

7t must be porosity.

7t must be white.

!orrosion resistance should be good.

Required conditions of textile fiber for clothing

Length should be long.

#hould be thin and soft.

#hould be strong.

There must be spinability.

There must be suitable elasticity.

7t must be stable solid.

$eight should be small.

#ymmetry ability should be high.

There must be suitable humidity ability and warm ability.

Must be white and be lustrous.

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