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Glossaries

 
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

A
  • Abrasive Wear
  • Acid Dyeable Nylon
  • Adipic Acid
  • Aesthetics
  • Affinity
  • Air Entangled
  • Antimicrobial
  • Antistatic properties
  • Antron® Legacy™**
  • Antron® Lumena™*
  • Antron® Nylon
  • Atmospheric fading test
  • Autoclave
  • Average Pile Density
  • Axminster
B
  • Back coating
  • Backing
  • Backing fabric
  • Backing systems
  • Bale
  • BCF yarn
  • Beam
  • Beck Dye
  • Bleeding
  • Blend
  • Blending
  • Branded Fibres and yarns
  • Bright
  • Broadloom
  • Bulking
C
  • Cabled yarn
  • Caprolactam
  • Carding
  • Carothers (Dr. Wallace)
  • Carpet Tile
  • Cationic Dyeable nylon
  • Cleanability
  • Colour Matching
  • Colourfastness
  • Commercial matching
  • Commingled yarn
  • Construction
  • Continuous Dyeing
  • Continuous Filament
  • Continuous Heatsetting
  • Converter
  • Cotton Count
  • Creel
  • Crimp
  • Crockfastness
  • Crocking
  • Cross section
  • Crushing
  • Curvilinear
  • Cushion backed
  • Cut and loop pile
  • Cut pile
D
  • Delamination
  • Delustering
  • Denier
  • Density
  • Differential Dye
  • Dimensional Stability
  • Drawing
  • Drop match
  • DSDN®
  • XTI®
    (only available in North America)
  • Duracolor®
  • DuraTech®
    (also known as Teflon® in Europe)
  • Dye Lot
  • Dye Methods
E
  • End
  • Extra Heavy Traffic
  • Extrusion
F
  • Face weight
  • Fadeometer
  • Fading
  • Fading tests
  • Fibre
  • Fibre engineering
  • Fibre shape
  • Fibre size
  • Filament
  • Filament count
  • Finishing
  • Flame Resistant Tests
  • Flame-resistant
  • Fluorine analysis
  • Fluorochemical
  • Foot traffic units
  • Frames
  • Frieze
  • Fusion Bonding
  • Fuzzing
G
  • Gauge pitch
  • Graphics machine
  • Greige goods
H
  • Hand
  • Heather
  • Heatsetting
  • Heavy Traffic
  • Heddle
  • Hexamethylene diamine
  • Hexapod drum test
  • Hollow filament fibres
  • Hybrid carpet
I
  • International Gray Scale for Colour Change
  • International Gray Scale for Staining
J
  • Jute
K
  • Knitting
  • Kuster
L
  • Latex
  • Level loop pile
  • Light traffic
  • Lightfastness
  • Loop pile
  • Luster
M
  • Matting
  • Melting point
  • Methenamine pill test
  • Moderate traffic
  • Modified delta cross section
  • Modular carpet or tile
  • Monofilament
  • Multifilament
  • Multilevel loop pile

* Formerly known as Antron® Excel SC.
** Formerly known as Antron® Excel.

   N
  • Nonwoven
  • Nylon
  • Nylon flake (or chip)
  • Nylon type 6
  • Nylon type 6,6
O
  • Olefin fibre
  • Optimum twist
  • Ozone fading
P
  • Packaged dyed
  • Pad-dyed
  • Parallel spinning
  • Pattern match
  • Pattern streaks
  • Patterned loop
  • Picks per inch
  • Piece dyed
  • Pigment
  • Pigmented yarns
  • Pile
  • Pile crush
  • Pile height
  • Pile reversal
  • Pile thickness
  • Pile weight
  • Pile yarn
  • Pilling
  • Pill test
  • Pin drafter
  • Pitch
  • Plush
  • Ply
  • Polyester fibre
  • Polymer
  • Polymerization
  • Polypropylene
  • Post-dyed
  • Pre-dyed
  • Primary backing
  • Printed carpet
  • Producer-coloured pigment
Q
R
  • Radiant panel test
  • Random sheared
  • Red 40 Stain Scale
  • Repeat
  • Resilience
  • Rows or wires
S
  • Sawtooth
  • Saxony
  • Secondary backing
  • Selvage
  • Set match
  • Shading
  • Shearing
  • Singles yarn
  • Skein dyed yarn
  • Sliver
  • Smoke chamber test
  • Soil hiding
  • Soil resistance
  • Solution dyed
  • Space dyed
  • Spinnerette
  • Spinning
  • Spun yarn
  • Stain resistance
  • Staple fibre
  • Static control
  • Static control test
  • Static shock
  • Stitches per inch
  • Stock dyed
  • Suessen
  • Superba
  • Surface area
  • Surface energy
  • Synthetic fibre
T
  • Teflon®
    (known as DuraTech® in North America)
  • Tensile strength
  • Texture
  • Textured loop
  • Texture retention
  • Texturizing
  • Tip definition
  • Tip shearing
  • Titanium dioxide (TiO2)
  • Total weight
  • Tow
  • Tuft
  • Tuft bind
  • Tufted carpet
  • Tufting
  • Turns per inch
  • Turn per tuft
  • Twist
  • Two-ply
U
  • Unitary
  • Urethane
V
  • Velvet carpet
  • Vettermann drum test
  • Vinyl
W
  • Warp
  • Watermarking
  • Weaving
  • Weft
  • Wilton
  • Wires
  • Wool
  • Woolen spinning
  • Worsted spinning
  • Woven backing
  • Woven carpet
X
  • Xenon arc
Y
  • Yarn
  • Yarn count
  • Yarn dyeing
  • Yarn ply
  • Yarn size
  • Yarn weight
Z
  • Zippering

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