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Habotai:
a lightweight silk fabric commonly used for linings, hangings and underwear.
Last referenced in:
Survey of the European Fabric Fairs for Spring/Summer 2011
Hand:
fabric quality or characteristics—such as softness, firmness, drapability, or fineness—perceived by touch.
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Textiles and clothing: opportunities for recycling
Hand feel:
see hand.
Hand scraping:
a process in which dyed denim fabric is rubbed with sand paper to impart a worn look to its surface.
Hank:
an unsupported coil comprising wraps of yarn (or sliver) made by winding the yarn on a reeling machine with a cross-wound pattern and then binding it to prevent tangling.
Hank dyeing:
the process of dyeing a yarn in hank form; hank dyeing is used where the yarn must preserve a fuller handle and bulk in order to obtain the desired effect in a knitted garment.
Last referenced in:
World Markets for Textile Machinery: Part 4--Dyeing and Finishing
Hard shell:
a hard shell is an outerwear garment which protects the wearer from the elements. It is typically made from a tough, abrasion-resistant material such as nylon. (See also soft shell.)
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Product developments and innovations in the home textiles market, April 2014
Harris tweed:
a woollen tweed fabric woven on handlooms by crofters in the Outer Hebrides in Scotland. Harris tweed is traditionally woven 75 cm wide but modern handlooms can produce 150 cm width fabric.
Last referenced in:
Survey of the European Fabric Fairs for Autumn/Winter 2014/15
HDPE:
high density polyethylene.
Last referenced in:
Markets for geosynthetic products and profiles of five leading manufacturers
Heald:
a steel wire or strip with an eye in the centre, or a similar device through which a warp yarn is threaded. The heald enables the yarn to be raised or lowered during weaving to create a shed.
Heald shaft:
a frame in which a large number of healds are mounted. Typically a loom contains two or more heald shafts, depending upon the complexity of the weave pattern required. The heald shaft is raised or lowered by means of cams or a dobby mechanism to form a shed and to create different weave patterns.
Heddle:
another word for heald.
Hemp:
a light-coloured, strong bast fibre obtained from the hemp plant Cannabis sativa.
Last referenced in:
Prospects for the textile and clothing industry in China
HEPA:
high efficiency particulate air (filtration).
Herringbone:
a broken twill weave giving a zigzag or herringbone effect.
Last referenced in:
Survey of the European Fabric Fairs for Autumn/Winter 2014/15
Heterofilament:
a filament made up of more than one polymer.
High loft:
textiles which are three dimensional, being thick but very light. The term is also applied to the fillings used in outdoor clothing to denote those which retain a large volume of still air.
Last referenced in:
The world nonwovens industry: ten smaller producers, part 3 of 3, 2013-14
Highly oriented yarn (HOY):
see fully drawn yarn.
HMPE:
high modulus polyethylene.
HMWPE:
high molecular weight polyethylene.
Hollow fibres:
melt-spun fibres extruded through special spinnerets to produce fibres with one or more holes down their length. Such fibres are good insulators and give warmth without adding weight.
Hollow spindle spinning:
a system of yarn formation, also known as wrap spinning, in which the feed stock (sliver or roving) is drafted, and the drafted twistless strand is wrapped with a yarn as it passes through a rotating hollow spindle. The binder or wrapping yarn is mounted on the hollow spindle and is unwound and wrapped around the core by rotation of the spindle. The technique may be used for producing a range of wrap-spun yarns, or fancy yarns, by using feeding different yarn and fibre feedstocks to the hollow spindle at di
Last referenced in:
World Markets for Textile Machinery: Part 4--Dyeing and Finishing
Honeycomb:
a fabric structure in which the warp and weft threads form ridges and hollows, so as to give a cellular appearance.
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Waterproof breathable fabrics: demand for comfort is driving innovation
Honeycomb core:
strips of paper, plastic, metal, etc, joined together to form a honeycomb pattern. Used as a lightweight core in sandwich mouldings.
Hopsack:
a modification of a plain weave in which two or more ends or picks weave as one.
Last referenced in:
Survey of the European Fabric Fairs for Autumn/Winter 2011/12
Horizontal lapping:
a process in which layers of web are laid horizontally, one on top of another, to form a multilayer structure (see also vertical lapping).
House-wrap:
a fabric installed during the construction of a building between its inner structure and outer facing. House-wrap is air permeable but not water permeable.
Last referenced in:
The world nonwovens industry: the leading ten producers, part 1 of 3, 2013-14
HPPE:
high performance polyethylene.
Last referenced in:
Fibres for Technical Textiles: Para-Aramids and High Performance Polyethylene
Huckaback:
a weave used principally for towels and glass-cloths in which a rough surface effect is created on a plain ground texture by weaving short floats, whereby warp floats are on one side of the fabric and weft floats are on the other.
Last referenced in:
Survey of the European fabric fairs for spring/summer 2014
HVAC:
heating, ventilation and air conditioning.
Last referenced in:
Global technical textiles business update, 1st quarter 2014
Hydroentanglement:
a process for bonding a nonwoven fabric by using high pressure water jets to intermingle the fibres. see spunlacing.
Last referenced in:
Global technical textiles business update, 1st quarter 2014
Hydrophilic:
a term used to describe a material which tends to mix with or to be wetted by water.
Last referenced in:
The world nonwovens industry: 20 medium sized producers, part 2 of 3, 2013-14
Hydrophilic fibres:
fibres which tend to attract and are wetted by water. These may be valuable for wicking or for absorption.
Hydrophilicity:
the extent to which a material is hydrophilic.
Hydrophobic:
a term used to describe a material which tends to repel or not to be wetted by water.
Hydrophobic fibres:
fibres which tend to repel and are not wetted by water.
Hydrostatic head:
a way of describing the pressure applied to a material in terms of the height of an equivalent column of water. Because the pressure exerted is determined solely by the height of the column, it is possible to use this figure to quantify how waterproof a fabric is. For example, a fabric which can withstand a hydrostatic head of one metre will resist the passage of water until the pressure of the water exceeds this value.
Last referenced in:
Waterproof breathable fabrics: demand for comfort is driving innovation
Hygroscopic:
a term used to describe a substance which attracts moisture from the atmosphere.
Last referenced in:
Markets for geosynthetic products and profiles of five leading manufacturers