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Alpaca Fiber and its Properties
Alpaca are woolly mammals related to camels and llamas. This herding animalslive in the western South Americain grasslands and scrub at altitudes from 12,800to 15,000 feet. Young alpaca are called crias.Alpacas have a lifespan of about 15 -…
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Timeline of Manmade Fibers
A useful filament was not produced until the last part of the 19th century when Swann and de Chardonnet extruded a solution of cellulose nitrate (collodion) through small holes (spinnerets). These pioneer manmade fibers were replaced by…
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Manufacturing of Manmade Fibers
Manmade fibers are manufactured using different mechanical and chemical processes for example Synthetic fibers from thermoplastics are produced by extruding the molten plastic through extrusion dies (spinnerets) into a stream of cold air…
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Definite qualities required for a fiber
Each fiber types having its unique properties decide the usage of a particular type of fiber for a specific use.For example, Nylon is a synthetic fiber, known for its strength, elasticity, toughness, and resistance to abrasion has…
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Blended Fiber Analysis
Blended yarns usually offer the best of several worlds i,e the breathability of wool or cotton, the durability of acrylic or nylon. Blends take dye differently and offer different color effects as well.Fiber blending has for a long time…
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Physical classification of Fibers
Fibers are broadly classified into Filament yarns and Staple Yarns on the basis of their physical structure.Filament yarns are measured in yards or meters.
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Sampling from Cotton Bales
Sampling procedure of bales,No.of tests and critical difference % for various fiber properties
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Textile Knit Yarn Production System, common faults and their remedies
Textile knot yarn production, Faults, and remedies, Uniformity ratio, Micronnaire and maturity, Fiber maturity
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Cotton Fiber Ginning
The process of separating the seeds from the cotton fibers. Types of processes, Points to be considered for fibre during processing. It also mentions various other properties.
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Properties of Vegetable/Plant/Cellulosic fibres
Chemically, cotton is the purest vegetable fibre, containing >90% cellulose with little or no lignin.
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