Glossary
In our textile lexicon, we explain key terms from our industry. Whether it’s types of fabric, production processes, work equipment or important personalities – here you can find out what it’s all about.
- Handle Tape
- Julius Boos jr
- Air-Jet Loom
- Alge Elastic
- August Becker → Werner Stuhr → Wolfgang and Eberhard Stuhr → Andreas Stuhr
- Binding Tape
- Bindings – Panama, Twill, Rib, Satin/Atlas
- Bleaching
- Braid
- Care Symbols
- Color Migration
- Decorative Ribbon
- Denim Stuhrband
- Dyeing – Reactive/Indanthrene
- Embossing
- ENKA-Glanzstoff
- Finishing
- Gripper Loom
- Lyon – The Textile Center in France
- Mercerizing
- Müller Frick/Jakob Müller
- Natural Rubber
- Needle Loom
- Piece Dyeing
- Piping
- PPT.
- Printing Processes – Screen, Flexo, Rotary, Pad Printing
- Recycled PES
- Reed/Weaving Reed
- Sanforizing
- Shaft
- Shed
- Shirt Stays
- Shuttle Loom
- Shuttleless Loom
- Stretching
- Textile Works Rudolf Homberg
- Traditional Costume Ribbon
- Tube Fabric
- Waistband Tape
- Warp Dressing
- Webbing
- Wristband
- Wuppertal – Textile Metropolis