Face-finished (fabric)

Descriptiveofafinish,for example,to wool fibries, in which the face side is treated selectively, as in raising.

Face-to-face carpets

Carpets manufactured as a "sandwich" in which the pile is attached alternately to two substrates; two cut pile carpets are made by cutting the pile yarns between the two substrates.

Facing

A lining or trim that protects the edges of a garment especially at collars cuffs and front closings.

Facing ribbon

A double shot or ribbed plain woven ribbon commonly used to reinforce the button line of cardigans.

Facing silk

A fine lustrous fabric of silk (usually of cord, satin, twill weave, or barathea) used for facing, e.g., lapels in men's evening wear.
Note: Fabrics of other fibres are used for facing purposes but are not properly described as 'facing silk'.

Facings

Components cut to the same shape as garment parts and applied primarily to neaten raw edges. Facings are usually applied to the inside of a garment but may be applied to the face of the garment in order to produce a visible and/or decorative finish.

Faconne

The French word for 'figured'. It is used in relation to textiles to describe jacquard fabrics with a pattern of small scattered figures.

Faconné

A broad term for fabrics with a fancy-type weave made on a Jacquard or dobby loom.

Fade

1. In fastness testing, any change in the colour of a textile caused by light or contaminants in the atmosphere, e.g., burnt-gas fumes.
Note: The change in colour may be in hue, depth or brightness or any combination of these.
2. Colloquially, a reduction in the depth of colour of a textile, irrespective of cause.

Fade-Ometer®

Laboratory device used to determine the fastness of a colored fabric to exposure to light. The test pieces are rotated around a light source simulating the sun’s rays at 45 N latitude in July between the hours of 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. Fabrics are rated by visual comparison with a gray scale according to degree of fading.

Fading

1. In fastness testing, any change in the colour of a textile caused by light or contaminants in the atmosphere, e.g., burnt-gas fumes.
Note: The change in colour may be in hue, depth or brightness or any combination of these.
2. Colloquially, a reduction in the depth of colour of a textile, irrespective of cause.

Fagonn'e

The French word for 'figured'. It is used in relation to textiles to describe jacquard fabrics with a pattern of small scattered figures.

Faille

A fine, soft fabric, woven from continuous-filament yarn, made in a plain weave with weft-way ribs formed by the intersection of a fine, close-set warp with a coarser weft. It was originally made of silk with a warp of the order of 5 tex and a coarser weft of about 13 tex.
Note: Faille belongs to a group of fabrics having ribs in the weft direction. Examples of this group arranged in increasing order of prominence of the rib are taffeta, poult, faille, and grosgrain.

Faille ribbon

A double shot or ribbed plain woven ribbon commonly used to reinforce the button line of cardigans.

Fall plate fabric, warp-knitted

A patterned fabric made on a raschel warp-knitting machine using one needle bar, involving the use of a solid metal plate (fall plate or chopper bar) to push the newly formed laps of the pattern bars out of the needle hooks, to be cast off with the ground loops of the previous course.