Gripper-spool Axminster

A carpet in which the yams for each weft-wise row are wound on a spool as in spool Axminster weaving, allowing for unlimited use of colour. The tufts severed from the yams are inserted at the point of weaving by grippers as in gripper Axminster weaving.(sub category of Axminster carpet)

Grist

A coarseness or fineness of yarn or other linear textile material. (See also count of yarn and Tables, p.396-397.)

Grist

Methods of variously expressing the mass per unit length or the length per unit mass of a yarn. (See also tex system, linear density, titre and Tables, p.396~397.)
Note: The term 'size' is used in North America for count of yarn.

Grosgrain

A plain-weave fabric with a rib in the weft direction, the rib being more pronounced than in a taffeta, poult or faille. It is usually made with a closely set continuous-filament warp and coarse folded continuous-filament or staple weft. One example of a finished high-quality product is 76x 1 1; 8.3xR90/6tex; 170 g/m2; K=21.9+10.4.
Note.. Grosgrain 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.

Ground (lace)

The basic structure of net, known as foundation net, by which the objects are joined.

Ground Color

A term describing the plain background color against which a design is created. © 2001 Celanese Acetate LLC

Grown-on

Descriptive of a small garment part which, though usually cut separately and then attached, is cut in one with the adjoining larger garment part. Normally applies to collars, waistbands, facings and sleeves which are subsumed into larger garment parts.

Growth

See SECONDARY CREEP.

Guanaco fibre (hair)

Fibre from the guanaco

Guard hairs

Fibres which project beyond the under-coat of some mammals. They are usually coarser than under-coat fibres.

Guide

A component for controlling the path of a running textile material.
Note.. Guides may be static, reciprocating, freely rotating, or positively driven.

Guide Bar

A mechanism on a warp-knitting machine that directs warp threads to the latch needles.

Guide bar (warp knitting machines)

A bar running the full width of a machine and equipped with guides through which threads are passed so that the lateral motions imparted to the guide bars by the pattern control device are transmitted to the threads.
Note: In warp knitting the term bar is also used either to define the number of guide bars in the machine or the number of guide bars used to make a particular construction,

Guide bars (lace machines)

Bars running the full width of a machine and equipped with guides through which threads may be passed so that lateral motions imparted to the guide bars by cam, jacquard, or other patterncontrol device are transmitted to the threads.
Note 1: On lace furnishing and string warp lace machines, the guide bars are few in number and generally consist of a substantial bar, in which guides made from flat metal stampings with an oval hole near the top are directly fixed. The number of guides corresponds to the gauge of the machine.
Note 2: On bobbinet (plain net) machines, there are normally only two guide bars, of which one is a substantial bar to which are fixed leads containing pigtail guides. The number of guides corresponds to the gauge of the machine.
Note 3.. On Leavers and bar warp lace machines, the guide bars are known as 'steel birs'. There may be up to 200 bars in the Leavers machine and up to 40 in the bar warp machine. Steel bars consist of thin steel strips with holes for threads punched in the upper part and slots to accommodate the bar brackets in the lower part. Friction bits are applied to the surface to provide thread space between one bar and the next. The thread holes are usually spaced one-quarter of the gauge of the machine, sometimes one-half gauge, and, rarely, full gauge.
Note 4.. On raschel machines the ground bars are fully guided, i.e., one guide for each needle. They are substantial bars to which leads of flattened metal stampings with round holes are attached. Pattern bars are only part guided with spike guides where required; these are screwed on to a blank bar.

Guides

Fittings of various shapes for controlling the path of a threadline.