Marker

The representation or drawing of the arrangement of identified garment pattern pieces relevant to the cutting of a batch of material. The marker is placed on the material and provides guidance for cutting.
Note: Markers may be on fabric, paper, card or held in computer data files.

Marker planning

The process of constructing a marker, with the primary intention of minimising wastage of the material to be cut.

Marking thread

A distinctively coloured sewing thread with a high fastness to washing, bleaching and dry cleaning solvents supplied specially to commercial launderers for stitching their identification symbols on to textile items being cleaned.

Marl

To run together, and draft into one, two slubbings or rovings of different colour or lustre. (See also worsted yarns, colour terms.)

Marl Yarn

A yarn made from two rovings of contrasting colors drafted together then spun. Provides a mottled effect.

Marocain

A crepe fabric with a pronounced weftways rib formed by the use of a fine close-sett warp and highly twisted weft picked two Z- and two S-twisted yarns.

Marquisette

A light, open-textured, fine-quality gauze, in which slipping is reduced by crossing the warp threads by means of the leno principle (see leno weaving).

Marquisette, warp-knitted

A square-hole net produced from two or three guide bars each using a full-set threading, the front bar marking a chaining movement and the second and third bars laying-in so that they connect the chains or pillars generally every third course.

Married Fiber Clump

A defect that occurs in converter top. It consists of a group of unopened almost coterminous fibers with the crimp in register.

Married yarn (defect)

Two ends inadvertently running on to one spindle during spinning operations. This is usually caused by the breakage of one end followed by its subsequent entanglement with an adjacent end after which the two continue to run in married form.

Married yarn (defect)

Two ends inadvertently running on to one spindle during spinning operations. This is usually caused by the breakage of one end followed by its subsequent entanglement with an adjacent end after which the two continue to run in married form.

Martindale test

A test used to simulate and measure the wear performance of textile yarns, fabric or floorcovering in use.
Note: There is little agreement between results obtained on different machines when used to test the same product, and the results obtained do not necessarily simulate effects produced during wear. One such type of machine is the 'Martindale'.

Mass coloration

A method of colouring manufactured fibres by incorporation of the colorant in the spinning composition before extrusion into filaments.

Mass pigmentation

A form of mass coloration in which a pigment is used.

Mass-Colored

A term to describe a manufactured fiber (yarn staple or tow) that has been colored by the introduction of pigments or insoluble dyes into the polymer melt or spinning solution prior to extrusion. Usually the colors are fast to most destructive agents.