Glossary
Uniform fabric, term by term.
The vocabulary that turns up on spec sheets, quotations and tender documents, defined in a line or two. Where a term deserves more than that, it links to the guide that covers it properly.
A
- AATCC
- AATCC 100
- AATCC 124
- AATCC 135
- AATCC 20A
- AATCC 76
- Above-scale industrial enterprise
- Abrasion resistance
- Accredited laboratory
- Ad valorem
- Advance and balance
- Advance Authorisation
- Agriculture Infrastructure and Development Cess
- Air permeability
- Air-jet loom
- Air-jet spinning
- Air-jet texturing
- amfori BSCI
- Anti-dumping duty
- Anti-microbial finish
- Anti-static finish
- ASTM
- ASTM D4966
- ASTM D737
- Authorised Economic Operator (AEO)
- Azo dyes
C
- Calendering
- Call-off
- Capacity utilisation
- Carded yarn
- Carding
- CBM
- CBP
- Cellulosic
- CEPA
- Certificate of conformity
- Certificate of origin
- CETA
- CFR
- Chain of custody
- Chambray
- Chlorine bleach
- CIE whiteness
- CIF
- Class-I local supplier
- Cloth beam
- Collar band
- Colour change
- Colour fastness
- Colour fastness to perspiration
- Colourway
- Combed yarn
- Commercial invoice
- Commercial laundry
- Compact spinning
- Composition
- Conditioning
- Consent to operate
- Consignment
- Consolidator
- Construction
- Container freight station
- Conversion cost
- Cotton
- Cotton Corporation of India (CCI)
- Cotton linter
- Cotton-rich
- Count CV%
- Counter sample
- Countervailing duty
- Cover factor
- Coverall
- Crease mark
- Crease recovery
- Creel
- Crimp
- Crocking
- CSP (count strength product)
- Cumulation
- Custom shade
- Customs broker
- Customs notification
- Cuttable width
- Cutting for approval
- Cutting room
D
- D/P and D/A
- D65
- DAP (Delivered at Place)
- DDP
- De minimis
- Declaration of conformity
- Delivery order
- Delta E
- Demurrage
- Denier
- Denim
- Desizing
- Destocking
- Detention
- DGFT
- Digital product passport
- Dimensional stability
- Disperse dye
- Dissolving pulp
- Dobby
- Documentary collection
- Double end
- Double rub
- Double-width
- Drape
- Draw frame
- Drawing-in
- Drill
- Drop wire
- Dry cleaning
- DTY
- Durable press
- Dwell time
- Dye lot
- Dye recipe
F
- Fabric consumption
- Fabric defect
- Fabric yield
- False-twist texturing
- Fastness grade
- FCA (Free Carrier)
- FCL
- FDY
- Fell
- Felting
- Fiber
- Fiber content label
- Filament yarn
- Finish
- Finished width
- Fire-retardant finish
- Firm price
- Fit sample
- Flame retardant fabric declaration
- Flax
- Float
- FOB
- Forced labour
- Formaldehyde
- Four-point system
- Four-way stretch
- Free time
- Free trade agreement (FTA)
- Free-issue
- Freight forwarder
- Fusing
I
- ICE cotton futures
- Importer of record
- Incoterms
- Index of Industrial Production (IIP)
- Input tax credit
- Inspection frame
- Interlining
- Inverted duty structure
- IPI (imperfections per km)
- IS 15853
- IS 17630
- ISI mark
- ISO 105
- ISO 105-B02
- ISO 105-C06
- ISO 105-E04
- ISO 105-J02
- ISO 105-X05
- ISO 105-X12
- ISO 11092
- ISO 12945
- ISO 12947
- ISO 14001
- ISO 15797
- ISO 1833
- ISO 20743
- ISO 22196
- ISO 3759
- ISO 45001
- ISO 5077
- ISO 6330
- ISO 9001
- ISO 9237
- Issuing agency
P
- Packing list
- Panna
- Pantone TCX
- Paraxylene
- Pass-through
- Payment terms
- Peached finish
- Peak season surcharge
- Performance security
- PET
- PET chip
- PFAS
- PFHxA
- pH
- Pick
- Pick glass
- Picks per inch
- Piece length
- Piece-dyed
- Pilling
- Pilling grade
- Pirn
- Plain weave
- Ply
- Poly-cotton
- Poly-viscose
- Polyester
- Polyester staple fiber (PSF)
- Polymer
- Polymerisation
- Poplin
- Powerloom
- POY
- Pre-bid query
- Pre-dispatch inspection
- Pre-export verification of conformity
- Pre-production sample
- Pre-shipment inspection
- Pre-shrunk
- Preferential certificate of origin
- Price chain
- Private label / white label fabric
- Processing house
- Proforma invoice
- Proof of origin
- PTA
- Puckering
- Purchase order (PO)
R
- Rapier loom
- Rate contract
- Rayon yarn
- REACH
- Reactive dye
- Ready stock
- Recycled content
- Recycled polyester
- Reed
- Reed mark
- Refined cotton
- Regenerated cellulose
- Repeat order
- Repeat size
- Repo rate
- Residual shrinkage
- Resin finish
- Reverse auction
- Ring frame
- Ring spinning
- Risk purchase
- RKM
- RoDTEP
- RoSCTL
- Roving
- Rules of origin
- Running metre
- Running quality
- Running shade
S
- SA8000
- SABER
- Sample book
- Sanforising
- Sanforized
- SASO
- Sateen
- Satin
- Scope certificate
- Scouring
- Sealed sample
- Seam slippage
- Seam strength
- Section 301
- Selvedge
- Selvedge legend
- Serge
- Sett
- Shade approval
- Shade band
- Shade card
- Shade family
- Shade standard
- Shed
- Shipping bill
- Shirting
- Shrinkage allowance
- Shuttleless loom
- Singeing
- Single transformation
- Size mix
- Sizing
- Skewing
- Sliver
- Slub
- SMETA
- Softener
- Soil release finish
- SONCAP
- Sowing area
- Spandex
- Spectrophotometer
- Spinneret
- Spinneret
- Spinning triangle
- Spirality
- Spot price
- Spray rating
- Spun polyester
- Spun yarn
- Staggered delivery
- Staging category
- Staining
- Staple fiber
- Staple length
- Starting mark
- Status holder
- Stenter
- Sublimation printing
- Suiting
- Sulzer
- Surface resistivity
- Swatch
- Synthetic fiber
T
- Tariff line
- Tariff rate quota
- Tear strength
- Technical bid
- Telegraphic transfer (TT)
- Telex release
- Temple
- Temple mark
- Tender
- Tensile strength
- Terylene
- Terylene
- Test report
- Texturised yarn
- Than
- Thin and thick places
- Thread count
- Tolerance
- Top-up order
- Tow
- TR (Terylene Rayon)
- TR and TC
- Traceability
- Transaction certificate
- Transhipment
- Transshipment
- Trial length
- Tumble dry
- Twill
- Twist
- Two-way stretch
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