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Plain-language articles on uniform fabric, from fiber to sale, with diagrams and videos.
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What a Process House Does: Greige to Finished Fabric
The steps that turn raw woven cloth into finished uniform fabric: inspection, singeing, desizing, scouring, bleaching, mercerising, heat-setting, dyeing, finishing, stentering and final checks.
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Fibers
Where every fabric starts: what cotton, polyester and viscose are, how each is made, and why mills blend them.
12 articles · 7 videos
Yarn
How fiber is spun into yarn, and how to read a yarn count, ply and blend.
7 articles · 7 videos
Preparing to weave
Warping, sizing and drawing-in: how yarn becomes a loom-ready warp beam.
3 articles · 1 video
Weaving
Inside the loom, and how the same machine makes plain, twill and dobby cloth.
7 articles · 1 video
Processing
What a process house does to turn greige cloth into finished fabric: dyeing, shade matching and finishes.
13 articles · 1 video
Testing and quality
How fabric is tested and inspected, and what each common certificate actually tells you.
7 articles · 1 video
Reading a fabric
GSM, width, construction and spec sheets: the numbers that describe a cloth.
8 articles
The trade
How fabric is priced, quoted, ordered, paid for and shipped, step by step for a new buyer.
20 articles · 1 video
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