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Percale - A closely woven, plain weave, spun fabric often used for bed sheets, generally 80 x 80 threads per inch or more.
Pick - A single filling thread carried by one trip of the loom insertion device across the loom. Picks interface with the warp ends to form woven fabric.
Pick Count - The number of filling yarns per inch or per centimeter of fabric.
Piece Dye - A process of dyeing fabric after weaving has been completed.
Pile Height - The measured loftiness of a textile product (as in the height of the loops on a bath towel).
Pilling - The tendency of fibers to work loose from a fabric surface and form balled or matted particles of fiber that remains attached to the surface of the fabric.
Pima - Grown primarily in the Southwestern United States. Pima cotton is hybrid cotton that was originally developed from Sea Island and Egyptian cottons. Wholesale linen products can have as little as 15% Pima in their contents and still be labeled as a Pima product.
Plain Weave - One of the three basic weaves: plain, satin, and twill. In the plain weave, each filling yarn passes successively over and under each warp yarn, alternating each row. This creates a plain grid pattern.
Polyester Fiber - A strong, manufactured fiber with the useful ability to be engineered to possess desirable characteristics such as quick drying, dimensional stability, longevity, color retention, and wrinkle resistance.
Poplin - A plain weave fabric of various fibers characterized by a rib effect in the filling direction.
Pre-shrunk - A term used to describe fabric that has been treated to induce shrinkage prior to manufacturing.
Printing (Direct) - A process in which the colors for a desired design are applied directly to the fabric.
Printing (Heat Transfer) - An indirect method of printing polyester fabric with disperse dyes. The design is transferred from pre-printed paper onto the fabric by contact with heat which causes the dye to sublimate. Having no affinity for paper, the dyes are taken up by the fabric. This method is capable of producing well-defined, clear prints.
Printing (Ink Jet) - Non-contact printing that uses electrostatic acceleration and deflection of ink particles released by small nozzles to form the pattern.
Printing (Roller) - The application of designs to fabric, using a machine containing a series of engraved metal rollers positioned around a large padded cylinder. Ink is fed to the rollers. A blade scrapes the ink from the unengraved portion of the roller. Each roller supplies one color to the finished design. As the fabric passes between the roller and the padded cylinder, each color in the design is applied. Most machines are equipped with eight rollers, although some have sixteen rollers.
Printing (Screen) - A method of printing similar to using a stencil. The areas of the screen through which the ink is not to pass are filled with a waterproof material. The ink is then forced through the untreated portions of the screen onto the fabric below. Each color in the pattern requires a different screen.
Processing - A set of procedures used by a business to renew (launder) commercial linens from a soiled state to a properly cleaned state.
Promotional Market (for wholesale linens) - The wholesale linens market consisting of prospective sales to promotional products distributors and end users of promotional products across all industries. The promotional market for wholesale linens generally consists of aprons, bath robes, pillowcases, napkins, tablecloths, beach towels, exercise towels, golf towels, hand towels, kitchen towels, and rally towels. Any wholesale linen product to which a logo can be applied would be of potential interest to the promotional market.
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