Covers fabric constructions from woven and knitted to nonwovens and composites. Details GSM, cover factor, drape, air permeability, pilling resistance, and handle. Includes test methods and how structure drives performance. This section explains practical decision criteria, typical test methods, and failure modes that matter in real production. Readers get checklists, calculation steps, and case examples connecting specifications to cost, reliability, and compliance. Links map core concepts to upstream inputs and downstream processes so choices remain consistent across sourcing, manufacturing, and end-use performance. Each article includes definitions, diagrams where helpful, and plain-language notes to help newcomers ramp quickly while giving experienced professionals the depth needed to troubleshoot and optimize. Standards references are cited with context, and whenever trade-offs exist, we make them explicit so you can defend decisions.
Knitting
Computes Munden’s Kc, Kw and Ks constants and the loop shape factor for a knitted fabric, the dimensionless measures that predict whether a structure has reached its stable relaxed state.
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Weaving & Fabric Construction
Converts loom speed, picks per inch and efficiency into woven fabric output in metres and square metres per hour and per shift, and reports the effective pick insertion rate a loom actually achieves.
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Calculates the extra path length a leno crossing end travels from crossing amplitude and pick spacing, converts any shortfall in let-off compensation into strain, and reports the resulting crossing end tension against the yarn breaking load.
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Converts label loom speed and ultra-high pick density into cloth speed, labels per hour and picks per label, then projects defective labels and defect rate from a per-million-picks insertion defect rate.
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Knitting
Predicts the grams per square metre of a knitted fabric from courses and wales per inch, stitch length and yarn count, by counting the loops in a square metre and the yarn length they consume.
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Works out how large a jacquard design repeat can be on a given machine: total ends in the cloth, ends and width per repeat, hook utilisation and spare hooks, plus the maximum repeat height allowed by pattern memory at the working pick density.
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Weaving & Fabric Construction
Calculates the lifting load on a dobby shaft or jacquard harness from ends per shaft, warp tension, shed angle and heald frame mass, and compares it against the rated shaft capacity to prevent machine overload.
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Knitting
Matches a knitting machine gauge to a workable yarn count range, and checks needle spacing against yarn diameter so the chosen count will not jam the needle bed or knit slack.
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Weaving & Fabric Construction
Calculates the grams per square metre of a woven fabric and the warp and weft yarn required per 100 metres, from ends per inch, picks per inch, yarn counts, crimp and process wastage.
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Weaving & Fabric Construction
Separates the width lost between the reed and the loom-state cloth from the width lost in wet processing, so a finished width target can be traced back to the correct reed width.
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