Yarn College Essays Samples For Students

Chapter 6 Review

1- Define Biaxial Weaving?
Biaxial Weaving is when the fiber tows that are brought together from two different sources on the loom. When the warp tows, they are unwound from the rack.2- Define Straight Grain and describe what can happen if the grain is not straight?
A quality woven fabric is a straight grain. If the yarns do not interlace at 90 degrees, it will result is the bowing or skewing of the fabrics. The fabrics that are bowed, tend to sag and the fabrics that are skewed, tend to produce a lopsided or crooked appearance. 3- What is ...

Introduction

Pongee fabric is a soft thinly woven cloth. It is usually a plain weave of light–medium weight fabric that has slubs (small lumps of yarns) on the surface and comes in natural light tan color. The slubs cause pongee to have a warm feel on the skin. Pongees originated in the 16th century from China along the banks of the Yangtze River in Sichuan, Anhui, Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces where it was usually home woven (Datta & Nanavaty, 2007). Some places in Japan such as Kyoto and Joshu can also be credited with the invention of the pongee (Japan Traditional Crafts Aoyama ...

When we hear about knitting, our mind usually draws a picture of an old lady, resting in an arm-chair, knitting socks for her grandchildren. But it is not actually true. This hobby is enjoying a revival today and a lot of young people can create real masterpieces.
The first sample of real knitting, cotton socks, was made in Egypt in the beginning of Common Era. In the 16th century in Paris knitting was considered man-only occupation (en.wikipedia.org). Later it spread in the country, where people could easily get all they needed for knitting. Since then knitting has gone in and out ...

Knitting is a process that makes clothes by using knitting needles and threads. Knitting is mainly done by hands, but machines are also used for knitting in the modern era. Rows of loops and stitches are used in the knitting process. Knitting is associated with making clothes for centuries, and there are various types of knitting that benefit human beings. This paper intends to discuss knitting and its history along with discussing various types of knitting and other related aspects of the subject.
Knitting has a long history and has been exercising in different parts of the world. A number ...

Textile is one of the products of utmost importance to human beings. Textile refers to a cloth or a fabric that is woven, knitted, or manufactured. It consists of a network of artificial or natural fibres called yarn or thread. Natural fibres are obtained from cotton and wool among others. This article deeply examines cotton as one of the natural fibres.
Cotton grows in protective capsule or boll around the cotton plant seeds. It is soft and fluffy. Cotton plant is native to both subtropical and tropical regions since it is a shrub. Cotton species are most diverse in Mexico, Australia Africa. ...

Going through the book “Curious reader” I have come across very interesting issues I had no or less idea about. Among the articles I come across were:

Hodgman, Ann. “No wonder they call me a bitch“ The Curious Reader. (2009)

This is an informative article on various kinds of dog food. It’s a commentary essay on low nutritional and bad taste in the dog food quality. She describes and compares the bad taste of food with play Doh. She vividly ridiculous all the promotion advertisement slogans and tactics linked with dogs foods. Mainly she opposes all the strategies ...

This proposal suggests the integration of domed shapes and sensor fabrics to construct multi-domed mazes with senor fabrics for children. Mazes are often a part of playground equipment for children but they are conventionally built as closed spaces with 90◦ C angles. Each space within the maze consists therefore is square or rectangular. A maze laid out with all corners the same angle can be boring as well as claustrophobic. Another disadvantage is that the person caring for the child may not fit in the maze but does not what is happening inside the maze with the child.
This ...