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Textiles: Fiber to Fabric, sixth edition, provides a comprehensive survey of textile manufacture. The processes of production of fiber to yarn to fabric, their finishes and characteristics are explained. Concurrently, consumer concerns regarding comparison, merits, limitations, selection, usage, and care are stressed.
Discussion of the entire range of fibers has been updated and expanded. Coverage includes the production of the principal types of cotton fiber; exotic hair fibers; latest variants of established manmade fibers, such as flame retardants; new and specialized manmade fibers, such as graft, matrix, polybenzimidazole, fluorocarbon, and carbon.
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