Float-plated fabric, knitted

A fabric constructed by the knitting of a plated fabric in which the face yam is floated at certain needles to allow the other yam to appear on the face.

Float-plated fishnet, weft-knitted

A knitted fabric resembling a fine-meshed net construction generally made by plating a thick and thin yam. The thick yarn is floated across the thin yarn to give either an all over or patterned open-work effect. (See also float-plated fabric, knitted under plated fabric, weft-knitted.)

Floating Ends

See FLOAT 3

Floating fibre index

The percentage of fibres not gripped by either the front or back rollers of a drafting system. It is determined by the Fibrograph instrument which is used to test samples of cotton fibre.(sub category of fibre length)

Flocculating

Coagulating or coalescing a material into a small loosely aggregated mass. There are two main types precision cut flock where all fiber lengths are approximately equal © 2001 Celanese Acetate LLC and random cut flock where the fibers are ground or chopped to produce a broad range of lengths.

Flock

A material obtained by reducing textile fibres to fragments by, for example, cutting, tearing, or grinding. There are two main types:
(i) stuffing flock: fibres in entangled small masses or beads, usually of irregular broken fibres, obtained as a by-product from, for example, milling, cropping, or raising of wool fabric, and mainly used for stuffing, padding, or upholstery;
(ii) coating flock: cut or ground fibres used for application to yarn, fabric, paper, wood, metal, or wall surfaces prepared with an adhesive. (See also electrostatic flocking.)

Flock printing

A method of fabric ornamentation. The fabric is printed with an adhesive and then finely chopped fibres are applied all over by means of dusting-on, an air-blast, or electrostratic attraction. The fibres adhere only to the printed areas and are removed from the unprinted areas by mechanical action.

Flocked carpets

Carpets manufactured by applying short chopped lengths of fibre (flock) to an adhesive-coated backing fabric. The application is usually carried out electrostatically.

Flocking

A method of cloth ornamentation in which adhesive is printed or coated on a fabric and finely chopped fibers are applied all over by means of dusting air-blasting or electrostatic attraction. In flock printing the fibers adhere only to the printed areas and are removed from the unprinted areas by mechanical action.

Flocks

1. (Cotton) Bunches of cotton fibres produced in the intermediate preparation stages of a spinning process, between bale opening and carding.
2. (Wool) Waste fibres obtained from wool during the different finishing processes.

Florentine

Heavy grey woven 3/1 twi I I cotton fabric, used for overalls and uniforms, having approxmately 38 ends x 19 picks/cm and 37x49 tex cotton yarn.

Floss silk

A degummed silk yarn or singles without twist used for embroidery.

Floss silk

The first threads secreted by the silkworm when it finds a place to form its cocoon.

Flouncings (Leavers lace)

Wide dress lace having one edge scalloped and the other usually straight. The width was traditionally between 30 and 180 cm, across the width of the machine.

Fluffing

A term describing the appearance of a carpet after loose fiber fragments left during manufacture have worked their way to the surface. Fluffing is not a defect; it is simply a characteristic of new carpets that disappears with vacuuming.