Haberdashery

Parts of a garment other than fabric and sewing thread, such as linings, shoulder pads, piping, ribbons, buttons and zips.

Habit

A woollen fabric used for ladies' riding habits, made from good quality wool, generally dyed to dark shades and given a napped finish. The term is applied widely to a range of costume fabrics.
Note: The word habit also has a series of meanings associated with clothing:
(i) dress worn by ladies when on horseback;
(ii) a sleeved tunic worn by those in holy orders - originally of coarse fabric in naturally occurring undyed colours such as white, blacks, browns and greys;
(iii) the dress characteristic of a particular rank, degree, profession or function;
(iv) bodily apparel or attire.

Habutae

A Japanese word meaning as moothlight weight faibric woven from net silk yarn in a plain weave. Originally used for lining kimonos.

Habutai

A Japanese word meaning as moothlight weight faibric woven from net silk yarn in a plain weave. Originally used for lining kimonos.

Hackling (flax)

A process in which stricks of scutched flax are combed from end to end to remove short fibre, naps (or neps) and non-fibrous material, and to sub-divide and parallelise the fibre strands.

Hair

Animal fibre other than sheep's wool or silk.
Note.. It is recognised that this definition implies a distinction between sheep's wool and the covering of other animals, notwithstanding the similarity in their fibre characteristics. Thus the crimped form and the scaly surface are not confined to sheep's wool. It seems desirable in the textile industry, however, to avoid ambiguity by confining the term wool to the covering of sheep and to have available a general term for other fibres of animal origin. Normally the less widely used fibres are known by name, e.g., alpaca, mohair, etc., but collectively they should be classed as hair. A difficulty arises when it is desired to distinguish between the fibres of the undercoat and the remainder of the fleece; for instance, between the soft short camel hair used for blankets and the coarse long camel hair used for belting. The term wool is sometimes used for the shorter fibre, qualified by the name of the animal, e.g., cashinere wool.

Haircloth

1. A fabric in which the weft consists of single fibres of horsehair, obtained from tails and manes and woven on a special loom which is capable of inserting picks of the discontinuous fibres. The fabric width is governed by the length of available horsehair and normally varies between 47cm and 76cm. The woven structure, which usually has a cotton warp, varies according to the enduse, e.g., interlinings, furnishing fabrics, sieve and press cloths, and the horse hair may be dyed.
2. A fabric produced from yams in which horsehair is mixed with cotton, polyester, linen or other fibres to make it strong and inflexible. Used in upholstery and also as a chest canvas in tailoring.

Haircord

A plain-woven cotton fabric, characterized by fine rib lines in the warp direction created by alternate coarse and fine ends, or by having two (or more) ends weaving as one alternately with a single end. A possible construction is 28 ends x 26 picks per cm; 2 ends 18 tex and 1 end 21 tex cotton warp x 21 tex soft spun cotton weft.

Haircord carpet

A cord carpet in which the pile is 100% hair.

Hairline

An effect obtained by either colour and weave or printing, producing fine hair-like lines either lengthways (warp hairline) or widthways (weft hairline) in a fabric.

Hairweight

The mass per unit length of a fibre (usually cotton)It is usually denoted by H. (See also standard hairweight.)
Note: This is numerically equivalent to millitex.

Hairy

See FUZZINESS.

Hairy (fabric effect)

A fibrous appearance in a fabric made from continuous-filament yam, which may be localised or general and is caused by damage to individual filaments.

Half cardigan rib; royal rib

A 1 x 1 rib fabric in which the wales on one side consist wholly of knitted loops and the wales on the opposite side consist of a held loop and a tuck loop.

Half-marl

A yam which has been produced from a roving of one end of mixture shade or solid colour, twisted with one end of two colours (as in single marl).(sub category of worsted yarns, colour terms)