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Technical Textiles - Textile products that require special functionality such as those used in industrial, aerospace, military, marine, medical, construction, geotextile, transportation, and high-technology applications.
Tensile Strength - In general, the strength shown by a textile subjected to tension.
Terry Cloth - A cotton or cotton-blend fabric with uncut loops on one or both sides. Terry cloth is used for toweling, bath robes, etc.
Terry Towels - A flat textile product (usually in a rectangular shape) with terry loops. Terry towels are manufactured in a variety of qualities, sizes, weights, colors, and designs.
Tex - A unit for expressing linear density, equal to the weight in grams of 1 kilometer of yarn, filament, fiber, or other textile strand.
Textile - A flexible material of natural or manufactured fibers that can be woven, knitted, knotted, etc. together.
Textile Processing - Any mechanical operation used to transform a textile fiber or yarn into a fabric or other textile product. Examples of textile processing operations include: opening, carding, spinning, plying, twisting, texturing, coning, quilling, beaming, slashing, weaving, knitting, and knotting.
Textile Waste - By-products created in the manufacture of fibers, yarns, and fabrics.
Texture - a term describing the surface effect of a fabric, such as dull, lustrous, wooly, stiff, soft, fine, coarse, etc.
Thread Count - the number of ends and picks per inch in a woven fabric.
Twill Weave - One of the three basic weaves: plain, satin, and twill. The twill weave is characterized by diagonal lines produced by a series of floats staggered in the warp direction. The floats are normally formed by filling.
Twist - The number of turns about its axis per unit of length of a yarn or other textile strand.
Twisting - The process of combining filaments into yarn by twisting them together or combining two or more parallel singles yarns (spun or filament) into plied yarns or cords. Twisting is also employed to increase strength, smoothness, and uniformity, or to obtain novelty effects in yarn.
Two-ply yarn - Two singles yarns twisted together.
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