Needle transfer (knitting)

The transfer of a double-headed latch needle from a slider in one bed or cylinder to the slider in the bed or cylinder opposite.

Needle, curved

A needle with a curved blade used in some overedging and in blindstitch machines. Ill hand sewing, curved needles are sometimes used when the back of the material being sewn is not easily accessible.(sub category of needle (sewing))

Needle, double-pointed

A needle with points at both ends and an eye midway between.
Note: This needle is used to form simulated hand stitching, Stitch Type 209.(sub category of needle (sewing))

Needle, straight

A needle with a straight blade (sub category of needle (sewing))

Needle-bonded fabric

A nonwoven structure formed by the mechanical bonding of a fibre web or batt by needling.
Note: Originally needlefelts were produced as flat structures without pile but recent advances in needleloom design have generated options for the production of various pile textures including both cut and loop.

Needle-punched fabric

A nonwoven structure formed by the mechanical bonding of a fibre web or batt by needling.
Note: Originally needlefelts were produced as flat structures without pile but recent advances in needleloom design have generated options for the production of various pile textures including both cut and loop.

Needle-run (lace)

Lace in which the objects are formed or outlined by embroidering on to a net or lace base.

Needlebonding

The use of barbed needles (see needle (needlefelt)) mounted in a needleloom (see needleloom (nonwoven)) to entangle a fibre web or batt by mechanical reorientation of some of the fibres within its structure.

Needlecord

A fine-ribbed corduroy.

Needled fabric

A nonwoven structure formed by the mechanical bonding of a fibre web or batt by needling.
Note: Originally needlefelts were produced as flat structures without pile but recent advances in needleloom design have generated options for the production of various pile textures including both cut and loop.

Needled Fabrics

The product of the needle loom (q.v.). Needled fabrics are used for rug pads papermaker’s felts padding linings etc.

Needlefeiting

The use of barbed needles (see needle (needlefelt)) mounted in a needleloom (see needleloom (nonwoven)) to entangle a fibre web or batt by mechanical reorientation of some of the fibres within its structure.

Needlefelt

A nonwoven structure formed by the mechanical bonding of a fibre web or batt by needling.
Note: Originally needlefelts were produced as flat structures without pile but recent advances in needleloom design have generated options for the production of various pile textures including both cut and loop.

Needleloom (narrow fabrics)

A shuttleless loom ill which the weft is drawn from a stationary supply and introduced into the shed in the form of a double-pick by a weft inserter needle. The weft is retained at the opposite selvedge by the action of knitting, or by the introduction of a locking thread from a separate supply.

Needleloom (nonwoven)

A machine for producing needlefelt. A needle beam reciprocates vertically at rates of up to 3000 cycles per minute. Felting needles are mounted in a board at a density of 300-5000 per metre width and pass through a fibre web or batt, which is supported between bed and stripper plates.