CTD 261 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Sodium Hydroxide, Double Cloth, Knitting Machine

• School: University of Alabama
• Department: Clothing, Textiles and Interior Design
• Course: CTD 261
• Professor: Thompson

Document Summary

12 weaving, basic weaves, and fabrics 3/11/2016 7:07:00 pm. Fabric pliable, plane like structure that can be made into 2-d or 3-d products that require some shaping & flexibility. Used in apparel, interiors and many technical products. Fabric quality is important to because it describes: Made with 2 or more sets of yarns interlaced at right angles. Filling yarns yarns in crosswise direction (weft or picks) 2 or more sets of yarn interlaced at right angles. Interest & texture to fabric via diff. interlacing patterns. Yarns can be raveled from adjacent sides. Fabrics have grain, relatively stable, little stretch. Loom machine used to make woven fabrics. Heedle wire w/ an eyelet in its center where a warp yarn is threaded through. There are as many heedles as there are warp yarns in a fabric. Projectile looms, missile loom, or gripper loom. Shuttle looms average about 130 picks/minute (ppm) and fabric production rates are typically 1. 5 to 3. 0 inches/minute.