Textile Articles

In addition to the traditional consumer products, such as apparel, carpets, upholstered furniture, bedding and window treatments, manufactured fibers are used in many less obvious ways. Tire cords made of polyester, nylon, aramid or rayon give the strength necessary for tires to run at high speeds and withstand a variety of road hazards. Reinforcing fibers of nylon, aramid, glass and other high-tech fibers provide the strength and rigidity needed by composite materials used for everything fro...
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The production of textiles is an important craft, whose speed and scale of production has been altered almost beyond recognition by industrialization and the introduction of modern manufacturing techniques. However, for the main types of textiles, plain weave, twill or satin weave, there is little difference between the ancient and modern methods.
Incans have been crafting quipus (or khipus) made of fibres either from a protein, such as spun and plied thread like wool or hair from camelids suc...
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There are some important fabric care products that we use in our every day life. We have listed here products that are widely used along with their description and usage.

• Bleach
• Bluing
• Color Removers
• Detergents
• Detergent Boosters
• Disinfectants
• Dry-Cleaning Fluid
• Dyes
• Enzyme Presoak Products
• Fabric Finishes
• Fabric Fresheners
• Fabric Softeners
• Presoak Products
• Pretreatment Products
• Rust Remover
• Stain Removers
• Starch Water Soften...
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Nineteenth-Century Costume
The costume style associated in early 19th-century, was an attempt to recapture classic simplicity. Women wore a thin muslin dresses with a high waist, a low round neck, and puffed short sleeves. Men wore a short-waisted cutaway coat with tails, a high collar, and large lapels and military boots; plain-colored wools became predominant. The whole male appearance was strikingly military.

Women costumes took a look of fragility and managed to achieve an hourglass shape...
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