Weaving - Lab notecards Flashcards
Twill weave
A type of weave that has fair luster, good snag resistance, medium strength, and fair wrinkle resistance. It produces diagonal lines on the cloth.
Satin weave
A type of weave that has good luster, poor snag resistance if they have good floats, a smooth surface, and high strength. One interlacing for each warp yarn and one for each filling yarn. No two interlacings ever touch or are adjacent.
Plain weave
The simplest and most used weave. It has poor luster, good resistance, low strength, and poor wrinkle resistance. When woven, it produces a an effect where every other one is showing.
Warp yarns
These yarns run parallel to the salvage, are usaully thinner and stronger, and have more twist than its counterpart. If both filament and staple yarns are used in one fabric, the filament are usually these.
Weft yarns
Also known as filling yarns, these run perpendicular to the selvage, may be bulkier, weaker, and have less twist than its counterpart. If both filament and staple yarns are used in one fabric, the staple yarns are usually the filling yarns.
Warp beam
The part of the loom that is a large roller on which all the warp yarns to be used are wound parallel to each other.
Harness
This part of the loom holds the hedles (frame).
Heddle
A part of the loom that has a hole in it where the thread is put through.
Shuttle
A part of the loom where a wooden device with a bobbin placed inside with the filling around it.
Quill
A part of the loom where a bobbin is in the center of the shuttle and allows the filling yarn to be wrapped around it.
Reed
A comb-like device on the loom that pushes the filling arn in the shed and into the body of the cloth.
Dents
The space between the wires of the reed on a loom.
Cloth beam
This par to fhe loom rollsthe cloth when you’re finished with it.
Four basic steps of weaving
Shedding, picking, beating up, and take up.
Shedding
The first step in weaving where you raise the harness to form the shed (v-like opening).
