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Textile Glossary
Cutting through the jargon
This glossary is a resource aimed at helping share and simplify both generic and industry specific information, expertise and knowledge. This service is provided as a committment to visitors to our site and the industry as whole. Although we aim to ensure that all the content is correct, please bear in mind that some areas of the industry move fast and terminology and its application can change.
Illusion
A very fine sheer net fabric usually of nylon or silk. Used for veils.
Indigo
A type of blue dyestuff originally obtained from the indigo plant but now produced synthetically. Used for denim.
Indigo & color
Refers to yarn dyed fabrics using a combinations of indigo dyed yarns and yarns of other colors together in the design.
Indigo & overprinted
Refers to printing done on an indigo denim, indigo chambray, or indigo dyed fabric.
Indigo dyed
Refers to a fabric which has been piece dyed with indigo dye.
Indirect warping
The transference of yam from a package creel onto a swift from which it is subsequently wound onto a beam.
Infantry
Soldier who would fight on foot.
Interfacing
A fabric, usually a nonwoven, that is meant to be fused or sewn to another to give it body and shape.
Interlining
Any one of a wide variety of fabrics used between the inner and outer layers of a garment to improve shape retention, strength, warmth or bulk. Interlining may be of woven, knitted, or nonwoven material and may be produced with or without a fusible adhesive coating.
Interlock
A double face knit fabric with 1x1 rib on each side. Usually firm and closely knit.
Interlock, weft-knitted
A double-faced rib-based structure consisting of two 1 x i rib fabrics joined by interlock loops. It is made on machines equipped with two sets of opposed needles, from various materials for a variety of purposes, including outerwear.
Intermingled yarn
A multifilament yarn in which cohesion is imparted to the filament bundle by entwining the filaments instead of, or in addition to, twisting. The effect is usually achieved by passing under light tension through the turbulent zone of an air-jet., note 1: some manufacturers describe such a product as an interlaced yarn., note2. Intermingling should be distinguished from air-texturing (see textured yam ) in which a much higher level of entanglement is achieved with the objective of producing texture or bulk.
Intermingling jet
An air-operated device used as an ancillary to some processes of yam extrusion, of drawing and texturing to induce intermingling
Iridescent
A fabric with a changeable color effect depending on the angle of view and lighting. It is usually the result of weaving with one color in the warp and another in the weft.
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