TEXTILE INDUSTRY

1. The Textile Industry
Vocabulary

2. ATMI
The textile industry’s manufacturers’
association
It encourages strong environmental
controls and safeguards among its
member textile manufacturers

3. Converter
An individual or organization that buys
greige goods

4. Dyeing
The process for imparting a solid color
to textiles

5. Fabric
Made from yarns and are either woven
or knitted

6. Fiber
The smallest part of the fabric
They are fine, hair-like substances,
categorized as either natural or
manufactured

7. Greige Goods
Unfinished fabrics

8. Importer
Buys fabric or manufactured textile
products from a foreign mill or other
supplier and brings it into the United
States

9. ISO
An international effort to protect the
environment
This organization coordinates many
groups worldwide with regard to setting
standards for the testing of goods to
facilitate international trade

10. Jobber
A person who buys from mills,
converters, and garment manufacturers
They often buy items that would
otherwise be difficult to sell, including
discontinued styles and colors and mill
overruns

11. Mill
A company that owns textile machinery
and makes fabric

12. Overrun
Occurs when a mill produces more
dyed, printed, or finished fabric than the
order specifies

13. Printing
The process of imparting designs to
textiles

14. Private Label
A retail brand in which apparel or other
sewn products are manufactured
specifically for a retailer and sold
exclusively by that retailer

15. Put-up
The term used to indicate the way fabric
is packaged when it is sold
Most fabrics sold to garment
manufacturers are in wound around a
cardboard tube

16. Vertically Integrated Mill
Large textile mills that not only make the
fabric but also produce their own yarn
and perform the finishing processes
required after the fabric has been
created

17. Yarn
Continuous thread-like strands
composed of fibers that have been
twisted together