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22 Cards in this Set
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Fiber |
Fine, hair-like substances, smallest component of a textile product. Natural or manufactured. |
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Yarn |
Group of natural or manufactured fibers that have been that have been twisted together. Form a continuous strand to produce fabric. |
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Fabric |
Made from an assembly of yarn and/or fibers into actual cloth. Could be woven, knitted or non-woven. |
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Dyeing and Printing |
Adding colours or patterns to textile products. |
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Finish |
Any chemical or mechanical treatment that modifies the reports of a textile product. |
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Fabric Put-Up |
The way fabric is packaged and sold |
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Primary Sources of Fabrics |
A company that makes or creates material. Mills, converters, importers. |
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Mills |
A company that owns textile machinery and produces fabric. Sell to converters, jobbers and large retailers. |
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Vertically Integrated Textile Mills |
Not only make fabric but produce their own yarn and perform the finishing process after the fabric is created. They do not make the fibers. |
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Converters |
An individual or organization that buys greige goods, have the fabric dyed or printed and finished by other companies, then sells the finished fabric. |
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Importers |
2 types of textile importing companies: direct importer and the import mill. |
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Direct Importers |
Buy fabric or manufactured products from a foreign mill or supplier (e.g. clothing, luggage, sewn product) |
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Secondary Sources of Fabrics |
A company that buys cloth and then sells it. They do not make or create the material. (Jobbers, retail stores, overseas agents) |
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Jobbers |
Buy from mills, converters and garment manufacturers. Buy mill or converter fabrics that may be difficult to sell, discontinued styles, colours and mill overruns. |
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Overruns |
Occurs when a mill produces more dyed, printed or finished fabric than the order specifies. An overrun can occur for various reasons, including allowances for damaged yardage. |
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Retail stores |
Customers are home sewers. Purchases from retail stores are called over the counter sales. |
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Overseas Agent |
An intermediary (broker), a person or company that represents an exporter. |
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Private Label |
A retail brand in which apparel or other sewn products are manufactured specifically for a retailer and sold exclusively by that retailer. |
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Greige Goods |
Unfinished fabrics. |
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Shorts |
Pieces of fabric shorter than 40 yards in length. |
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Remnants |
1-10 yard pieces of cloth. |
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Pound Goods |
Less than 1 yard in length, sold by the pound |
