B |
| Blend: | Generally it indecates towels with 84% Cotton and 16% Polyester. Blend towels maintain high structural rigidity due to less shrinkage of polyester. Bed linens have blended sheets and pillow cases which are usually 50%/50% ratio.
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| Border: | Thick line at the end of towels where no yarns are looping. If it's plain, it's called cam. Instead patterned fabric is shown, then it's called dobby border. Some towels have multiple and/or colorful dobby borders. To have luxurious look, some towels uses shiny yarns to finish the border.
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| Brazillian Cotton: | High quality cotton grown in Brazil
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C |
| Center Stripe: | Dyed color stripe which runs vertically in the center of white towel.
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| Cam: | A type of border which has flat look.
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| Color: | Color of towel.
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| Cotton: | Cotton is a soft fiber that grows around the seeds of the
cotton plant, a shrub native to the tropical and subtropical regions of both the Old World
and the New World. The fibre is most often spun into thread and used to make a soft, breathable textile.
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D |
| Dozen: | Twelve pieces of items. Towels and bed linens are usually priced and counted by dozen
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E |
| Egyptian Cotton: | High quality cotton grown in Eqypt. Luxurious domestic towels are made of Egyptian cotton.
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F |
| Fringe: | A fringe is an ornamental appendage to the border of a towel. It originally consisted of the ends
of the warp, projecting beyond the woven fabric. More commonly it is made separate and sewed on,
consisting sometimes of projecting ends, twisted or plaited together, and
sometimes of loose threads of towel loops.
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J |
| Jacquard: | The Jacquard loom is originated by a inventor, Joseph Marie Jacquard in 1801 who used the holes punched in pasteboard punch cards
to control the weaving of patterns in fabric. The sequence of raised and lowered threads is what creates the pattern.
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L |
| Length: | Lenth of towel. It is a longer side.
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| Linen: | Linen is a material made from the fibers of the flax plant. Linens are fabric household goods, such as pillowcases and towels.
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| Loom: | The Loom is a machine used for weaving fabric.
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M |
| Mercerized cotton: | Mercerization is a treatment for cotton fabric and thread mostly employed to give cotton a lustrous appearance.
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| Micro Cotton: | n/a
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| Micro Fiber: | Microfiber is a term for fibres with strands thinner than one denier. Fabrics made with microfibres are exceptionally soft and hold their shape well.
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| Muslin: | Muslin is a type of finely-woven cotton fabric, introduced to Europe from the Middle East in the 17th century. It was named for the city where it
was first made, Mosul in what is now Iraq.
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P |
| Polyester: | n/a
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R |
| Ring Spun: | Special way to create loops to make towels lighter yet fluffy and soft.
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S |
| 12 singles: | Loops are twisted with 12 single threads
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| 16 singles: | Loops are twisted with 16 single threads
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T |
| Terry: | n/a
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V |
| Velour: | n/a
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W |
| Width: | Width of towel. It is a shorter side of towel
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Y |
| Yarn: | n/a
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