CTD 261 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Flannel, Units Of Textile Measurement, Knitting

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

Document Summary

A yarn is a continuous strand of textile fibers, staple or filament, in a form suitable for weaving, knitting, or otherwise intertwining to form a textile fabric. A yarn is a constructed assemblage of textile fibers which acts as a unit in fabric formation. Short fibers or continuous fibers: single or plied. One strand or two/more strands, twisted: simple or complex. Same appearance along length or variable appearance along length. A t-shirt would probably be knit from a simple, single, staple yarn. Fabric for a slip would probably be knit from a flat, smiple, single filament yarn. Filament fibers laid side by side, with some twist applied. Strips made by lengthwise division of a sheet of material. Twist in staple (spun) yarns is given in units of turns of twist per unit length, either turns per inch (u. s. ) or turns per centimeter (europe, asia) tpi= tpc x 2. 54.