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fabrics and have
In recent years other ballistic fabrics such as Dyneema have been developed that resist puncture and which do not have kevlar's issues.
A more well-to-do hoplite would have linothorax, armour composed of stitched / laminated linen fabrics that was sometimes reinforced with animal skins and / or bronze scales.
Unlike woven fabrics, where strands usually run straight horizontally and vertically, yarn that has been knitted follows a loopy path along its row, as with the red strand in the diagram at left, in which the loops of one row have all been pulled through the loops of the row below it.
Because of their front-back symmetry, these two fabrics have little curl, making them popular as edging, even when their stretch properties are not desired.
Cotton fabrics discovered in a cave near Tehuacán, Mexico have been dated to around 5800 BC, although it is difficult to know for certain due to fiber decay.
* Panties, underwear that come in all shapes, fabrics and colours, allowing you to have lots of coverage or barely any coverage at all.
Materials have ranged from leather and furs, to woven materials, to elaborate and exotic natural and synthetic fabrics.
Researchers in scientific labs have been developing prototypes for fabrics that can serve functional purposes well beyond their traditional roles, for example, clothes that can automatically adjust their temperature, repel bullets, project images, and generate electricity.
Because of the crimp, wool fabrics have a greater bulk than other textiles, and retain air, which causes the product to retain heat.
From the columns being only partially fluted, as well as from other signs, it is clear that it never was completed ; but all the more important parts of the structure were finished, and it must have certainly been one of the most imposing fabrics in antiquity.
It is evident that several nations in the world do not have direct access to certain raw materials such as oil, coal, gas, wheat or fabrics such as wool due to geographical boundaries including climate, location, land size or population numbers.
Such fabrics generally have their own specific names other than linen ; for example, fine cotton yarn in a linen-style weave is called Madapolam.
Fragments of straw, seeds, fibers, yarns, and various types of fabrics which date back to about 8000 BC have been found in Swiss lake dwellings.
Linen fabrics have a high natural luster ; their natural color ranges between shades of ivory, ecru, tan, or grey.
However in recent times, many aspects of the fetish fashion market have been incorporated and accepted into so called mainstream fashion whereby fashion creators will directly use exotic fabrics such as latex or sheer instead of cotton or wool for their creations.
Older fabrics ( especially cotton and low budget synthetic ), have the tendency to stretch with wind pressure which results in distorted and consequently inefficient sail shapes.
Other evenweave fabrics are also suitable for Hardanger embroidery but do not usually have the clearly defined block appearance.
Highly elastic fabrics such as Lycra / Spandex have mostly replaced raw nylon backing, since the nylon by itself cannot be stretched and makes the neoprene very stiff.
Since knitted fabrics are generally somewhat elastic and have a softer hand ( feel or drape ) than woven fabric, sweaters that are more tightly fitted or have a soft drape may conform well to the body without requiring tailoring necessary in a woven garment such as darts, flares and gores.
The king had given him a suite of rooms at Chambord, and a hundred thousand francs for the construction of a laboratory, and according to St. Germain the dyes discovered by the king would have a materially beneficial influence on the quality of French fabrics.
" Lucas writes, " What has been assumed to have been Indian Indigo on ancient Egyptian fabrics may have been woad.

fabrics and finish
The finish can be applied to a variety of fine fabrics, prints or plain.
In the 19th century, the terms cambric and batiste gradually lost their association with linen, implying only different kind of fine plain-weave fabrics with a glossy finish.
The most important aspect of successful wet cleaning is experience and knowledge of different types of fabrics and proper ways to finish garments by operators.
Artificial leather is a fabric or finish intended to substitute for leather in fields such as upholstery, clothing, and fabrics, and other uses where a leather-like finish is required but the actual material is cost-prohibitive, unsuitable, or unusable for ethical reasons.

fabrics and resist
Across Asia and Africa, patterned fabrics were produced using resist dyeing techniques to control the absorption of color in piece-dyed cloth.
The traditional costumes are made up of decorative fabrics, which they achieve by pattern weaving and wax resist.
Katazome ( 型染め ) is a Japanese method of dyeing fabrics using a resist paste applied through a stencil.

fabrics and soil
The soiled fabrics used for rapid testing of detergent formulations are made in such a way that only part of the soil is removed by even the best detergent formulation in a single wash.
These early attempts were made of natural fibres, fabrics or vegetation mixed with soil to improve road quality, particularly when roads were built on unstable soil.
Examples of geotextiles. Geotextiles are permeable fabrics which, when used in association with soil, have the ability to separate, filter, reinforce, protect, or drain.

fabrics and wrinkles
* Jiffy steamer, a device used to remove wrinkles from garments and fabrics
Twills also recover from wrinkles better than plain-weave fabrics do.
Farmer also tried products that were new at the time, such as fabrics that resisted wrinkles and stains, to grow the company to an almost 30 % market share in uniforms.

fabrics and .
While white is the coolest summer shade, there are lots of pastel hues along with tintable fabrics that will blend with any wardrobe color.
This program is based on the policy of designing and building efficient machines which will help produce better textile values -- fabrics whose cost in relation to quality, fashion and utility provide the consumer with better textile products for the money.
These machines produce the higher quality stretch yarns required in weaving stretch and textured fabrics.
During the past year, great progress has been made by the weaving mills in creating new stretch and textured fabrics.
Fashion centers are now predicting broad acceptance of sports apparel and improved `` wash and wear '' dresses and blouses made from these fabrics.
It transfers yarn directly from the producers' largest package into ideal supply packages for use on Unifil loom winders in weaving stretch yarn fabrics.
Another growth factor is increased consumer demand for better quality and larger quantities of fabrics that go with a rising standard of living.
Harris has indicated that two devices, the Launder-Ometer and Terg-O-Tometer are most widely used for rapid detergent testing, and he has listed the commercially available standard soiled fabrics.
Although there is no question but that the process of washing fabrics involves a number of phenomena which are related together in an extremely complicated way and that these phenomena and their interrelations are not well understood at the present, this section attempts to present briefly an up-to-date picture of the physical chemistry of washing either fabrics or hard surfaces.
Upon consideration of the variety of soils and fabrics normally encountered in the washing process, it is little wonder that the use of a number of detergent constituents having `` synergistic '' properties has gained widespread acceptance.
Wavy lines, feather-like patterns, rosettes of indefinitely floral nature, birds either singly or in stylized rows, animals in solemn frieze bands ( see Plates 11 - 12 ) -- all these turned up in the more developed fabrics as preliminary signs that the potters were broadening their gaze.
In vinyl foam, the big news was the development of techniques for coating fabrics with the material ( for details, see P. 395 ).
This test method is intended for determining the dimensional changes of woven or knitted fabrics, made of fibers other than wool, to be expected when the cloth is subjected to laundering procedures commonly used in the commercial laundry and the home.
The person using these tests must determine which combination of procedures is practical for any specific item in order to evaluate the dimensional changes of textile fabrics or garments after laundering procedures commonly used in the home or commercial laundry.
Distances marked on the specimen in warp and filling directions ( or wales and courses for knitted fabrics ) are measured before and after laundering.
This is especially true for knitted fabrics.
Woven or warp knitted fabrics to be subjected to restorative procedure 1 ( tension presser ).
Place the template ( Fig. 2 ) on the fabric so that the sides of the 10 inch square cut out of the template are parallel to the warp and filling for woven fabrics, or the wales and courses for knitted fabrics, and so that the same amount of fabric extends beyond the edges of the template on all sides.
Circular knitted fabrics to be subjected to restorative procedure 2, ( knit shrinkage gauge ).
Colorful, bright Eastman Chromspun fabrics, with the magenta, pink and white tones predominating as well as golden shades are used with Composite.
To bring warmth to the dining area, golden orange tones are used in the fabrics.

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