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| Name 3 Trade Names for Polyester |
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| What are the properties of Polyester? |
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Excellent Abrasion Resistance
Excellent Tenacity
Excellent Resiliency
Poor Absorbancy |
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| Name 3 Trade Names for Nylon |
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Antron
Anso
Captiva
Zeftron
Nylon 6,6 |
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| What are the properties of Nylon? |
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Excellent Abrasion Resistance
Excellent Tenacity
Excellent Elastic Recovery
Poor Absorbancy |
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| What are the properties of Olefin? |
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Excellent Resiliency
Excellent Dimensional Stability
Excellent Elastic Recovery
Poor Absorbancy |
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| Name 3 trade names for Olefin |
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Herculon
Duraguard
Spectra 900 or 1000 |
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| What are the properties of Acrylic? |
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Moderate abrasion resistance
Mod./High elongation
Moderate Thermal Retention
Poor Absorbancy |
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| Name 3 Trade names for Acrylic |
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| What are the properties of Saran? |
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Chemical & Stretch resistance
Good weathering Properties
tough / durable fiber
excellent recovery
good resiliency |
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| What are the properties of Vinyl? |
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flame retardant
Non-water soluble
good chemical resistance
excellent resistance to biological attadk |
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| What are the properties of Leather? |
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Durable
Stiffened by solvents
Stained easily by oils
Needs special care and cleaning |
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| Chemicals such as formaldehyde or melamine are applied to a cloth then heat set to create a variety of finishes such as water repellant, wrinkle resistant, glaze. |
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| The design desired is printed on the fabric with a material which will resist dying. The fabric is then piece dyed washing removes the resisted colorant in the design leaving a white pattern. A different color can be applied in the resist space. |
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| This weave is usually made of 5,8 or 10 shafts which have the warp yarns float the same number of times above the seft then bound cone before floating again. |
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| This weave is usually made of 5,8 or 10 shafts which have the warp yarns float the same number of times above the seft then bound cone before floating again. |
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| The edge on either side of awoven or flat knitted fabric. Often different threads and or weaves so finished to prevent raveling. |
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| A device which carries the weft yarn across the width of the loom |
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| The french word means to quilt or to pad. Woven similar to a brocatelle having two warps which in weaving achieves a puckered quilted effect. |
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| A long white lustrous hair from the angora goat. It is extremely stong and will hold a permanent emboss. Usually seen as a plush pile fabric |
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| French for watered, a finishing process produces a wavy or rippled pattern on the fabric. |
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| A plain weave strong cotton cloth |
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| A finishing process in which circular brushes vigorously raise the fiber ends forming a pile-like surface. |
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| A melt-spun manufactured synthetic fiberdevelope in 1928 by DuPont that is stong, abrasion resistant, has excellent elasticity, Is heat set, can hold permanent pleats, is durable, has a gossamer sheen, is machine washable, has a hard gray or tan bead and |
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| Melt-spun, manufacturered synthetic fiber made of polymerizether etheylene (an oil derivative). It is strong, abrasion resistant, chemically inert, thermoplastic and static resistant. it is easy to care for but suseptible to oil stains. It has a hard t |
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| A french word meaning trimming, as in braids, gimp, tassels & cords |
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| Raised loops cut interlacings of double cloth or tufts (cut loops) and other erect yarns or fibers deliberately produced on cloth which forms all or part of the surface of the fabric |
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| A fuzzy ball caused by rolling up of abraded surface fibers |
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| Extra long staple fiber with a silkky sheen, originall named for the county of orgin in Arizona |
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| Melt-spun manufactured synthetic fiber first introducted in Europe then in the us by DuPont under the name Dacron. It has outstanding resiliency wet or dry, excellent dimensional stability after heat setting, and is the most widely used synthetic. It is |
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| To upholster or use a fabric by turning it 90 degrees so the vertical warp yarns run horizontally. |
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| Regenerated Cellulose Fiber |
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| The frequency with which a pattern is seen on the width or length of fabric |
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| A synthetic substance used in corrective finishes to add body, reduce creasing, control shrinkage, produce luster in glazing, repel water, or supply permanent press. |
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| Melt-spun manufactured synthetic fiber produced from acrylonitrile, it is extruded into warm air or a coagulation bath. Striations on surface of fiber.Itis hot stretched and has a dog bone or lima bean cross-section shape. It primarily used as a staple |
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| Process of producing fibers by meling polymer chips and extruding the molten polymers in fiber (filament) form, coagulation occurs by cooling. |
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| A type of olefin made from polymerizing propylene |
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| produced synthetic polymers made from basic raw materials |
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| A fiber finishing step in which a manufactured fiber is elongated after spinning to alter the molecular arrangement within the fiber increasing crystallinity and orientation and resulting in a change in specfic performance properties |
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| Process of forcing the dope or spinning solution through the openings in a spinerette to form a fiber |
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| Which has a lower degree of color tranfer a class 2 or a class 4 |
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| Which has a higher degree of fading class 1 or class 3 |
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| What minumum physical property ratings should an upholstery fabric have? |
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CLASS 3 Brush Pill
50# Warp/Weft Breaking Strength
25# Weft/Warp Seam Slippage |
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| What minimum physical property ratings should a panel / upholstered wall fabric have? |
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35# Warp/Weft Breaking Strength
25# Warp/Weft Seam slippage |
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| What minumum physical property ratings should a drapery fabric have? |
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25# (W/W) for fabrics over 6oz/sq yd
15# (W/W) for fabrics under 6oz/sq yd |
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| How many double rubs constitute a heavy duty upholstery rating for each of the two testing methods? |
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Wyzenbeek 30,000 double rubs
Martindale 40,000 double rubs |
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| What is the difference between the Wyzenbeek and Martindale tests? |
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Wyzenbeek - fabric is taut & rubbed in w/w direction with cotton duck
Martindale - fabric flat mounted and rubbed in fig. 8 mostion with worsted wool. |
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| What colorfastness rating should drapery fabric have? |
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| What minimum colorfastness rating should upholstery fabric have? |
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Dry Crocking - CLASS 4
Wet Crocking - CLASS 3 |
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| The substance from which acrylic fibers are made |
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| The thimble-like nozzle through which the solution is extruded to form a fiber |
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| a finishing step in the production of leather to prevent rotting of the hide or skin |
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| The Outermost layer of leather and includes the grain features of the hide or skin. It is the highest quality of leather removed from a thick hide. |
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| The processed skins of animals, birds, reptiles and fish |
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| A leather that has been brushed or napped to pull fibrils to the surface and create a softer surface and a more matte luster. |
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| Physically changed cellose fibers (wood pulp/cotton linters)though a fiber spinning process remain chemically unchanged. |
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| A manufactured regenerated cellulose fiber made froom cotton linters / wood pulp to form a staple or filament fiber that looks like silk but is lower in cost, with high absorbancy, is soft, comfortable, drapes well but wrinkles easily and scorches with hi |
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| Lengthwise lines visible under a microscope on some manufactured rayon fibers caused by liquid lost from the fiber during the coagualtion process |
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| Process used in creating acetate, chemically & physically changes cellulose into acetate |
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| A cellulose derivative fiber that is low in cost with good drapability, smooth hand & texture used in place of silk, rather weak fiber suseptible to acetone |
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| Dissolves acetate, part of the acetylation process |
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| Most common type of rayon method used to produce rayon developed in England in 1891, low tenacity |
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| Method of producing rayon |
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| Describes a fibers sensitivity to heat. Fibers that melt or glaze at a relatively low temperature |
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| Fibers that soften, melt or shrink when subjected to heat are called |
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| A fiber forming method in which the raw material is dissolved in amine oxide, spun into a weak solution of amine oxide and precipitated out of the solution |
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| What two fibers are filament fibers but not synthetic |
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| what types of fibers are made from chemical compounds, produced in manufacturing facilities and the materials original form is not fibrous |
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| A rug woven on a jacquard loom and having a velvety surface formed by the cut loops of a pile. |
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| A rug with a stiff backing and a soft, colorful cut pile usually arranged in a complex pattern. |
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| Wilton rugs are typically what blend of fibers |
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| Rugs that measure between 27" to 3' 3" are called what? |
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| Rugs / carpeting 12 ft. or wider are called? |
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| To measure carpeting what formula should be used? |
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| Length x Width divided by 9 |
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| Which is more durable Tufted or Woven Rugs & Why? |
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| TUFTED is more durable because a woven can be cut or break across a weft / warp yarn causing a run. |
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| Which rug has more colorful patterns an Axminster or a Wilton? |
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| A Spool Axminster has up to 20 colors |
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| Axminster and Wilton rugs require this special means of installation? |
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| What determines the density of a rug? |
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| The number of Rows & Pitches determine the rugs density like thread counts determine fineness of fabric. |
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| For synthetic fibers that are difficult to apply surface color what means is typically utilized to dye them & why? |
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| SOLUTION DYES because the color is mixed into the dope solution and becomes part of the fiber as opposed to a topical application of color. |
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| Most Synthetic carpeting is made of what fiber? |
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| The standard width for fabrics is what? |
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| What is the differnce between a woven and printed fabric? |
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| Woven fabrics are colored by utilizing different colored yarns and weaving them into patterns. A printed fabric has color applied to the surface of a plain ground fabric. |
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| How is leather purchaed & measured? |
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| Leather is purchased by the hide and measure by the square foot. |
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| A narrow streak or stipe effectthat can run vertically or horizonatally or both to create subtle stripe like designs |
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| A loosely coiled length of yarn or thread wound on a reel |
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| Simplest weave also the name of a fabric. |
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| Trademark name for polyester fiber |
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| Warp threads are arranged in the same order as they will lie in the finished cloth and areprinted before weaving giving a wavy image with no crisp edges |
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| Is Wilton carpet braodloom or narrow goods? |
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