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A Brief Introduction To Textiles

Definitions

A textile is any object woven from natural or synthetic fibres. This also includes fabrics made by the interlacing of yarns or threads by knitting, braiding, netting or felting.
The primary natural fibres are from animal sources (wool, silk and hair), vegitable sources (cotton, flax and hemp) and, less commonly, a mineral source (asbestos).
Synthetic fibres have been under development from the late 19th century. The first synthetic fibres are known as ...
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Bicomponent Fiber  

Current U.S. Bicomponent Fiber Producers: BASF Corporation; DuPont Company; Fiber Innovation Technology, Inc.; KoSa; Solutia Inc.

Definition: Bicomponent fiber is comprised of two polymers of different chemical and / or physical properties extruded from the same spinneret with both polymers within the same filament.

Bicomponent Fiber Capabilities
Bicomponents can provide:
Thermal bonding 
Self bulking 
Very fine fibers 
Unique cross sections 
The functionality of s...
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High - Performance Fibers

Specialty fibers are engineered for specific uses that require exceptional strength, heat resistance and/or chemical resistance. They are generally niche products, but some are produced in large quantities.

Glass is the oldest, and most familiar, performance fiber. Fibers have been manufactured from glass since the 1930s. Although early versions were strong, they were relatively inflexible and not suitable for many textile applications. Today's glass fibers offer a muc...
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Spandex Fiber
  (Elastane)

Spandex Textile Filament Fiber

First U.S. Commercial Spandex Fiber Production: 1959, DuPont Company

Current U.S. Spandex Fiber Producers: Asahi Kasei Spandex America, Inc. (formerly Dorlastan.); INVISTA, RadiciSpandex Corporation

Federal Trade Commission Definition for Spandex Fiber: A manufactured fiber in which the fiber forming substance is a long-chain synthetic polymer comprised of at least 85% of a segmented polyurethane. (Complete FTC Fiber Rules here.)

Basic Pr...
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Acrylic Fiber  

Acrylic Tow Fiber
Acrylic Staple Fiber

First U.S. Commercial Acrylic Fiber Production: 1950, DuPont Company

Current U.S. Acrylic Fiber Producers:Sterling Fibers

Federal Trade Commission Definition for Acrylic Fiber: A manufactured fiber in which the fiberforming substance is any long-chain synthetic polymer composed of at least 85% by weight of acrylonitrile units (-CH2-CH[CN]-)x. (Complete FTC Fiber Rules here.)

Basic Principles of Acrylic Fiber Production — Acrylic ...
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Nylon Fiber
  (Polyamide)

Nylon Tow Fiber
Nylon Staple Fiber
Nylon Textile Filament Fiber
Nylon Industrial Filament Fiber
Nylon Carpet BCF Filament Fiber

First U.S. Commercial Nylon Fiber Production: 1939, DuPont Company

Current U.S. Nylon Fiber Producers: Fiber Innovation Technology, Inc.; Fiber Science, Inc.; Honeywell Resins & Chemicals LLC; INVISTA; Kordsa International, LLC; Nylstar, Inc.; Palmetto Synthetics; Polyamide High Performance, Inc. (Formerly Acordis); Premiere Fibers Inc.; Solutia ...
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Polyester Fiber (Polyethyleneterephthalate) (Polyethylene Naphthalate)

Polyester Tow Fiber
Polyester Staple Fiber
Polyester Fiberfill
Polyester Textile Filament Fiber
Polyester Industrial Filament Fiber
PEN Fiber (Polyethylene Naphthalate) more

First U.S. Commercial Polyester Fiber Production: 1953, DuPont Company

Current U.S. Polyester Fiber Producers: Color-Fi; Dak Fibers; Fiber Science, Inc.; Foss Manufacturing Co.; INVISTA LLC; Nan Ya Plastics Corp.; Palmetto Synthetics; Performa...
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Composite fibres – natural and synthetic blends

Composite fibre products are not new. The first composite material known was made in Egypt around 3,000 years ago when clay was reinforced with straw to build walls. With the advent of metals, the use of natural fibre for reinforcing declined. The rise of composite materials began during the 1960s when glass fibres in combination with tough rigid resins could be produced on a large scale. The advantages of using plant fibre include weight savin...
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Alpaca

There are approximately three million alpacas worldwide with approximately 80 percent of these in Peru. The industry in South America does not export the raw fibre material – it is processed in Peru into products for export. Products include clothing, yarns, and knitwear and craft products.

There are two types of alpaca; the huacaya, which accounts for 80 percent of the total and the suri which makes up the remaining 20 percent. The fibre of the suri is the longest and the most prized....
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Camel

Camel hair has two qualities; the relatively coarse outer hair and the inner down fibre. The outer hair is coarse and can be up to 37 cm in length with a diameter of 20-120 microns. The inner down fibre produced by animals in hot desert climates tends to be coarser and sparser than from those living in a more temperate climate. The inner down fibre varies from 19-24 microns and varies between 2-5 and 12.5 cms in length. Only this fibre is used in yarn production.

The fibres are collected ...
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Wool fibre

Wool production and use dates back approximately 10,000 years in Asia Minor. People living in the Mesopotamian Plain at that time used sheep for three basic human needs: food, clothing and shelter. As spinning and weaving skills developed woollens became a greater part of people's lives. The warmth of wool clothing and the mobility of sheep allowed people to spread civilisation beyond the warm climate of the Mesopotamia. Between 3000-1000 BC the Persians, Greeks and Romans distribut...
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Organic Cotton

Cotton dominates global fibre production with an annual production of 18 million tonnes. It is the most important fibre used in large-scale textile production. With an increasing awareness of the amount of chemical usage in cotton production and the resulting ecological damage, there is concern about conventional cotton production, and a move to either organic cotton production or to production of other fibre crops that require fewer chemicals, such as hemp or kenaf.

The only cot...
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Flax and Linen

Flax is also known as linen. The flax plant yields the fibres for linen cloth; the short fibres not needed for cloth production can be used to make paper. Linen has been used for thousands of years. The earliest traces of its use have been dated as far back as 8,000 BC. Flax is thought to have originated in the Mediterranean region of Europe, the Swiss Lake Dweller People of the Stone Age apparently produced flax for fibre and seed. Mummies in Egyptian graves dating back 6,000 y...
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History of natural fibres

Natural plant and animal fibres have provided the raw materials to meet our fibre needs. No matter which climatic zone humans settled they were able to utilise the fibres of native species to make products such as clothes, cloths, buildings and cordage. The first composite material known was made with clay and straw to build walls in Egypt 3,000 years ago. Many of the ancient plant fibres are no longer in use. Fibres such as jute, sisal, coir and kapok only started to...
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Jute is a long, soft, shiny vegetable fibre that can be spun into coarse, strong threads. It is produced from plants in the genus Corchorus, family Malvaceae. 

Jute is one of the cheapest natural fibers, and is second only to cotton in amount produced and variety of uses. Jute fibres are composed primarily of the plant materials, cellulose (major component of plant fibre) and lignin (major components wood fibre). It is thus a ligno-cellulosic fibre that is partially a textile fibre and partia...
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Economics of Cotton

A National Cotton Council analysis affirms that today’s modern cotton production system provides significant benefits to rural America’s economy and environment.

Healthy rural economies are based on stable farm income, and cotton yields and prices are often among the healthiest of all field crops, vegetable or fruit.

Cotton continues to be the basic resource for thousands of useful products manufactured in the U.S. and overseas. U.S. textile manufacturers use an annual av...
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