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Title: The Textile Industry


1
The Textile Industry
  • Vocabulary

2
ATMI
  • The textile industrys manufacturers association
  • It encourages strong environmental controls and
    safeguards among its member textile manufacturers

3
Converter
  • An individual or organization that buys greige
    goods

4
Dyeing
  • The process for imparting a solid color to
    textiles

5
Fabric
  • Made from yarns and are either woven or knitted

6
Fiber
  • The smallest part of the fabric
  • They are fine, hair-like substances, categorized
    as either natural or manufactured

7
Greige Goods
  • Unfinished fabrics

8
Importer
  • Buys fabric or manufactured textile products from
    a foreign mill or other supplier and brings it
    into the United States

9
ISO
  • An international effort to protect the
    environment
  • This organization coordinates many groups
    worldwide with regard to setting standards for
    the testing of goods to facilitate international
    trade

10
Jobber
  • A person who buys from mills, converters, and
    garment manufacturers
  • They often buy items that would otherwise be
    difficult to sell, including discontinued styles
    and colors and mill overruns

11
Mill
  • A company that owns textile machinery and makes
    fabric

12
Overrun
  • Occurs when a mill produces more dyed, printed,
    or finished fabric than the order specifies

13
Printing
  • The process of imparting designs to textiles

14
Private Label
  • A retail brand in which apparel or other sewn
    products are manufactured specifically for a
    retailer and sold exclusively by that retailer

15
Put-up
  • The term used to indicate the way fabric is
    packaged when it is sold
  • Most fabrics sold to garment manufacturers are in
    wound around a cardboard tube

16
Vertically Integrated Mill
  • Large textile mills that not only make the fabric
    but also produce their own yarn and perform the
    finishing processes required after the fabric has
    been created

17
Yarn
  • Continuous thread-like strands composed of fibers
    that have been twisted together
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