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Mommes (mm), traditionally used to measure silk fabrics, the weight in pounds of a piece of fabric if it were sized 45 inches by 100 yards (1.2 m by 90 m). One momme = 4.340 g/m 2 ; 8 mommes is approximately 1 ounce per square yard or 35 g/m 2 .
A 6" long sewing gauge with a plastic slider. A sewing gauge is a ruler, typically 6 inches long, used for measuring short spaces.It is typically a metal scale, marked in both inches and centimeters
A Dictionary of Units of Measurement". University of North Carolina. Archived from the original on December 20, 2016 a commercial unit of length or area used to measure finished cloth. Generally speaking, one bolt represents a strip of cloth 100 yards (91.44 meters) long, but the width varies according to the fabric.
The term, yard derives from the Old English gerd, gyrd etc., which was used for branches, staves and measuring rods. [5] It is first attested in the late 7th century laws of Ine of Wessex, [6] where the "yard of land" mentioned [6] is the yardland, an old English unit of tax assessment equal to 1 ⁄ 4 hide.
Historically, it was a regionally variable measurement similar to the English yard both in size and in that it was often used for measuring textiles. Values of the guz ranged from 24 to 41 inches (610 to 1,040 mm) over time. Today, it is generally used in the Indian subcontinent as the word for a yard.
The S numbers originated in England, [4] where the worsted spinning process was invented and arose from the worsted yarn count system for stating the fineness of yarn. The worsted count (also known as the Bradford count) was the number of 560-yard (510 m) lengths (hanks) of worsted yarn that 1 pound (0.45 kg) of wool yields. [5]
A nail, as a unit of cloth measurement, is generally a sixteenth of a yard or 2 1 ⁄ 4 inches (5.715 cm). [1] The nail was apparently named after the practice of hammering brass nails into the counter at shops where cloth was sold.
Fabric inspection, also known as fabric checking, is a systematic fabric evaluation in which defects are identified.Fabric inspection helps understand quality in terms of color, density, weight, printing, measurement, and other quality criteria prior to garment production.