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Mercerizing is an advanced stage in the processing of Yarn into fabrics (the final product). It gives the otherwise plain fabric a lustre/shine, and easy dyeability.
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∙ 13y agoMercerizing yarn is to add a treatment to a yarn to give it luster, strength, resistance to mildewing, and makes it easier to dye uniformly.
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What types of equipment are beneficial to a cats health?
Equipment such as a yarn ball is beneficial to a cats health. A yarn ball helps a cat exercise its muscles so that the muscles would become stronger and harder.
What sort of antique textile item is a yarn swift?
A yarn swift is a piece of equipment that is used for winding a skein of yarn. You take the skein of yarn and pull it into a circular shape and place it over the swift. The swift is a little bit like an umbrella frame without the fabric. The swift rotates as you pull the yarn off to roll it into a ball. Often, a ball winder is used in connection with a swift. It's much easier to use a swift for rolling yarn into a ball, although many people, myself included put the skein on the back of a chair to wind.
What is plural for yarn?
Yarn is an irregular plural so plural for yarn is yarn. It can be singular or plural.
What is the difference between a spun yarn a filament yarn and a textured bulk filament yarn?
difference between spun yarn and filament yarn
What is cotton's Lustre?
cotton has a very little natural luster, which can however be improved in the fabric chemically by mercerizing or physically by beetling method
What is elongation in yarn?
* yarn elongation is stretching of yarn before breakage of yarn and it is related with workability of machine and process * yarn elongation is nothing but the the fibre strength
What is a bay yarn?
A bay yarn is a British dialect term for a form of woollen yarn.
What is neppy yarn?
Basically neps is a problem of yarn but it may be a ornamented yarn if it can be arranged in a organized way. As for example: (95%Cotton+5%Polyester) Neppy Yarn Base yarn is cotton & if some dyed polyester of different color can be sprayed throught its length & base yarn is dyed then one kind of neppy effect will be visible throughout the length of the yarn. This yarn is called Neppy Yarn.
Why the fabric need a singeing process?
Generally, the first process of fabric pretreatment is singeing, especially for the fabric of natural fiber, as cotton\flax etc., they all need singeing to wipe redundant fibers which are nonuniform on the fabric, this process will make the fabric looks more glossy, and make the grain line more clear. Singeing can benefit dyeing and printing, it can also cut the yarn end and confused yarn. Singeing & mercerization technique is a high-tech in 1990s. The high count pure cotton yarn will become more smooth and breathable after singeing. Then the fabric will keep the pure cotton characteristics and got the better glossiness after mercerizing, it can give you the pure cotton character and silk feeling. By yulong tex
What is difference between texred yarn and micro yarn?
Textured yarn has for lack of better words a texture like confettie, eyelash, or fiber look to it. Micro yarn is very thin yarn.
How many grams in 225 yards of yarn?
It will depend on the type of yarn. 225 yards of worsted weight yarn is about 100g, but 225 yards of sock weight yarn is about 25g. What is the yarn type?
What is viscose mvs yarn?
What is MVS Yarn .
