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Textile recycling is the process of recovering fiber, yarn, or fabric and reprocessing the material into new, useful products. [1] Textile waste is split into pre-consumer and post-consumer waste and is sorted into five different categories derived from a pyramid model.
Mechanical recycling is the process of shredding textile fabric into fibers, which are then spun back into yarn without the use of chemicals. [2] When cotton is mechanically recycled, it usually produces a shorter fiber length, which can affect the final quality of the end textile. [15]
Colourants of the textile – a textile's colourants includes dyes, but also the mordants used to set dyes, with different mordanting processes used throughout the world, making knowledge of a textile's origins and the chemistry of its dye necessary. A drop of water may be applied to an inconspicuous area of the textile and blotted with a clean ...
Half of all textiles produced are made of the fiber. [35] Cotton is a water-intensive crop, requiring 3644 cubic meters of water to grow one ton of fiber, or 347 gallons per pound. [ 36 ] Growing cotton requires 25% of insecticides and 10-16% of pesticides of what is used globally every year.
Textile fibres or textile fibers (see spelling differences) can be created from many natural sources (animal hair or fur, cocoons as with silk worm cocoons), as well as semisynthetic methods that use naturally occurring polymers, and synthetic methods that use polymer-based materials, and even minerals such as metals to make foils and wires.
As water vapor passes through the plate and the fabric, it causes Evaporative Heat Loss and therefore more energy is needed to keep the plate at a constant temperature. Ret is the measurement of the resistance to evaporative heat loss. The lower the Ret value, the less resistance to moisture transfer and therefore higher breathability.
Textile stabilization is a conservation method for fiber and yarn-based cloth intended to mitigate damage, prevent degradation and preserve structural integrity. Stabilization is part of a broad set of techniques in the field of conservation and restoration of textiles typically undertaken by a specialist or textile conservator .
Flocking is the process of depositing many small fiber particles (called flock) onto a surface. It can also refer to the texture produced by the process, or to any material used primarily for its flocked surface. Flocking of an article can be performed for the purpose of increasing its value.