TXC 8 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Fabric Structure, Knitting, 18 Months
10 May 2019
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Woven textile mills often spin their own yarn, knitters purchase the yarn. Due to higher demand, yarn mills needed faster weaving, hence the first power loom in. Any material that is made by weaving, knitting, braiding, knotting, laminating, felting, or chemical bonding. Begun with the creation of yarn from fiber fibers are first twisted or spun into the yarn. Yarns are then knitted or woven into grieve goods, or unfinished fabrics, sold to converters to finish them. Converter must be on top of trends and work quickly. Converter may buy unfinished textile fabrics, contracts with outside firms for their textile mills sell greige goods to converters who finish them finishing, and acts as their own selling agent for finished goods. Staple fabrics are constructed and finished in the same way all the time, novelty fabrics are special design fabric producer works 18 months to 2 years out, while the fabric makers work 1 year out.
