Felting Shrinkage of Plain-Knitted Wool Fabrics

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Tops chlorine. Chlorimated tops yarns plain-knit fabrics. Textile materials. Relative humidity frictional character istics temperature time. Twisting knitting twist factors run-in tension steaming loop length tension cover factors machine gauges. Yarn shrinkage yarn relaxation yarn counts wet relaxation dry relaxation shrinkage-time curves washing shrinkage rate felting area shrinkage combined shrinkage shrinkproofing: variance. Felting shrinkage. Variance analysis standard analysis group analysis regression technique fitting (curves).

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