Fabric

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..... duct manufactured from Fibres through twisting, interlacing, bonding, looping or any other means, in such a manner that the flexibility, strength, and other characteristic properties of the individual fibres are not suppressed". The Man-Made Textile Encyclopaedia (1959) defines fabric as "a collective term applied to cloth no matter how constructed or manufactured and regardless of th .....

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..... in its modern sense "to any manufacture from fibres, filaments, or yarns, natural or artificial, obtained by interlacing". The 1967 Annual Book of ASTM Standards defines cloth as "any textile fabric but specially one designed for approval domestic or industrial use," and textile fabric as "a planer structure consisting of interlaced yarns or fibres". A publicati .....

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..... A tyre cord fabric is not a true fabtic today, but originally a square woven fabric was employed in making the pneumatic automobile tyre. "The modern tyre fabric is not woven or knitted, but consists of cabled yarns with twists formerly mostly cotton, now usually of high tenacity viscose rayon or nylon. These cords are arranged in parallel order and rubberized." Delhi Cloth & General .....

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