| Askewed or Bias |
Condition where filling yarns are not square with wrap yarns on woven fabrics or where courses arenot square with wale lines on knits. |
Major or Minor |
| Back Fabric Seam Impression |
Backing fabric is often used to cushion fabric being printed. If there is a joining seam in the backing fabric, an impression will result on printed fabric. |
Major |
| Barre |
Occurs in circular knit. Caused by mixing yarn on feed into machine. Fabric will appear to have horizontal streaks. |
Usually Major |
| Birds Eye |
Birds eye often caused by unintentional tucking from malfunctioning needle. Usually two small distorted stitches caused side by side. |
Major or Minor depending on severity |
| Burl Mark |
When a slub or extra piece of yarn is woven intothe fabric, it is often removed by a "burling tool."This will usually leave an open place in the fabric. |
Major |
| Bowing |
Usually caused by finishing. Woven filling yarns lie in an arc across fabric width. It is critical on stripes or patterns and not as critical on solid color fabrics. |
Major or Minor |
| Broken Color Pattern |
Usually caused by colored yarn out of place on frame. |
Major |
| Color Out |
Color out is the result of color running low in reservoir on printing machine. |
Major |
| Color Smears |
Color Smears are the result of color being smeared during printing. |
Major or Minor |
| Crease Mark |
Differs from crease streak in that streak will probably appear for an entire roll. Crease mark appears when creases are caused by fabric folds in the finishing process. Often discoloration is a problem. |
Major |
| Crease Streak |
Occurs in tubular knits. Results from creased fabric passing through squeeze rollers in dyeing process.Depending on the product. |
Usually Major |
| Drop Stitching |
Drop stitching is resulted from malfunctioning needle or jack appearing as holes or missing stitches. |
Major |
| Dropped Pick |
Caused by the filling insertion mechanism on a shuttleless loom not holding the filling yarn,causing the filling yarn to be woven without tension. The filling yarn appears as "kinky".There will also be areas of "end out". |
Major |
| Drawbacks |
Caused by excessive loom tension gradually applied by some abnormal restriction. When the restriction is removed the excess slack is woven into the fabric. Usually the ends are broken |
Major |
| Dye Streak in Printing |
Results from a damaged doctor blade or a blade not cleaned properly. Usually a long streak until the operator notices the problem. |
Major |
| End out |
Caused by yarn breaking and loom continuing torun with missing end.MajorJerk-in Caused by an extra piece of filling yarn being jerked part way into the fabric by the shuttle. The defect will appear at the selvage. |
Usually Major |
| Hole |
Holes on fabrics are usually caused by broken needle. |
Major |
| Jerk In |
Jerk Ins are caused by an extra piece of filling yarn being jerked part way into the fabric by the shuttle. The defect will appear at the selvage. |
Major or Minor |
| Knots |
Knots are caused by tying spools of yarn together. |
Usually Minor |
| Missing Yarn |
Occurs in circular knit. Caused by one end of yarn missing from feed and machine continuing to run. |
Major |
| Mixed Filling |
Caused by bobbin of lightweight yarn or different fiber blend used in filling. Will appear as a distinct shade change. |
Major |
| Mixed Yarn |
Mixed yarn is a different fiber blend used on the warp frame, resulting in a streak in the fabric. |
Usually Major |
| Mottled |
Mottles occurs when colors applied unevenly during printing. |
Major or Minor |
| Needle Line |
Needle Line is caused by bent needle forming distorted stitches in a vertical line. |
Major or Minor |
| Open Reed |
Open reed are the results from a bent reed wire causing warp ends to be held apart, exposing the filling yarn. |
Major |
| Pin Holes |
Pin holes along selvage caused by pins holding fabric while it processes through tender frame.
Major> if pin holes extend into body of fabric far enough to be visible in the finished product |
Major |
| Press Off |
Press Off occurs when all or some of the needles on circular knitting fail to function. Fabric either falls off the machine or design is completely disrupted or destroyed. |
Major |
| Printing Machine Stop Mark |
Dye or ink smudged along width of fabric as a result of the printing machine stopping. |
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| Print Out of Repair |
Caused by print rollers not being synchronized properly. This results in various colors of the design not being printed in the proper position. |
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| Puckered Selvage |
Usually caused by selvage being stretched in finishing or by uneven wetting out in sanforization process. |
Major |
| Runner |
Runner is a caused by broken needle. The runner will appear as a vertical line. Most machines have a stopping device to stop the machine when a needle breaks. |
Major or Minor |
| Sanforize Pucker |
Usually caused by defective spray heads resulting in uneven wetting out of Sanforize. Fabric will appear wavy or puckering when spread on cutting table. It is difficult to detect while inspecting on inspection machine with fabric under roller tension. |
Major or Minor |
| Scrimp |
Scrip is the result of fabric being folded or creased when passing through tender frames. |
Major |
| Skewing |
Skewing refers to condition where filling yarns are not square with warp yarns on woven fabrics or where courses are not square with wale lines on knits. It happens when the fabric shrinks more perpendicular to the twill line than along the twill line. |
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| Slub |
Slub refers to thick or heavy places in the yarn or flying waste yarn getting into yarn feeds during spinning process. Slub and other inconsistencies are common in fabrics produced on vintage shuttle looms. |
Major or Minor |
| Smash |
Small caused by a number of ruptured warp ends that has been repaired |
Major |
| Soiled Filling |
Soiled filling is dirty oily looking spots on the warp or filling yarns, or on packaged-dye yarn. |
Can be Major or Minor |
| Stop Mark |
Stop mark occurs when the loom is stopped, the yarn elongates under tension. When the loom starts again, the slack is woven into the fabric. |
Can be major or Minor |
| Straying End |
Straying End is caused when an end of yarn breaks and the loose end strays and is knit irregularly into another area. |
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| Thin Place |
Thin Place is often caused by the filling yarn breaking and the loom continuing to run until the operator notices the problem. |
Major |
| Water Spots |
Water spots are usually caused by wet fabric being allowed to remain too long before drying, Color migrates leaving blotchy spots. |
Major |
| Pilling |
Pilling refers to the forming of little matted balls on the surface of knitted fabrics. Pilling occurs when soft yarn rubs against itself, resulting in tangled fibers and produces an uneven and worn look. |
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