Abstract
Coating textiles with heat reactable adhesive powders provides finished articles that are termed by the garment industry as fusible interlinings. The combining of two or more substrates by in line processing is referred to as lami nates. The history of such textile structures dates back to the early 1950s where acrylic and polyurethane wet adhesive systems were developed mainly for laminat ing while a company in the UK (Staflex, Ltd.) started to develop a coated textile with the use of dry powders suitable for fusing into garments. In these early years the interlining exerted a dimensional control as well as controlled stiffness/bulk to a garment part, which is not necessarily the case in today's world where interlinings have been reduced in weight and the wide use of nonwovens has reduced the pos sibility for enhanced bulk.
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