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Thread fundamentals and construction
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| Thread fundamentals and construction | Air-textured yarn | Air-jet textured yarn; ATY | A filament yarn whose loops and bulk are created by an air-jet process. | Luftverblasenes Filamentgarn | Fil texturé par jet d’air | Hilo texturizado por aire | Filato testurizzato ad aria | 空气变形纱 | Sợi filament tạo phồng bằng khí | ||||||||||||
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Different process from false-twist texturing.
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| Thread fundamentals and construction | Bonded thread | Bonded sewing thread | A thread treated so that its plies remain compact and resist opening during sewing. | Bondierter Faden | Fil collé | Hilo bondeado | Filato bondizzato | 粘合线 | Chỉ may kết dính | ||||||||||||
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Do not confuse bonding with adhesive seam bonding.
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| Thread fundamentals and construction | Braided thread | Braided continuous filament | A thread produced by interlacing several yarn systems in a braid. | Geflochtener Faden | Fil tressé | Hilo trenzado | Filato trecciato | 编织线 | Chỉ bện | ||||||||||||
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Do not confuse with a twisted thread.
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| Thread fundamentals and construction | Continuous filament thread | Continuous filament; multifilament thread | A smooth thread made from bundles of continuous filaments. | Multifilament | Fil à filaments continus | Hilo de filamento continuo | Filato a filamento continuo | 连续长丝线 | Chỉ filament liên tục | ||||||||||||
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A multifilament contains many filaments; a monofilament contains one.
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| Thread fundamentals and construction | Corded thread | Cord | A coarse thread produced by twisting together already plied threads. | Kordelzwirn | Fil câblé | Hilo cableado | Filato cordonato | 帘子线 | Chỉ cordon | ||||||||||||
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Do not confuse with braided cord.
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| Thread fundamentals and construction | Core | Thread core | The central load-bearing component of a core spun or wrapped thread. | Kern | Âme | Núcleo | Anima | 芯材 | Lõi | ||||||||||||
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Not the same as a bobbin core or package tube.
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| Thread fundamentals and construction | Core spun thread | Core-spun thread; core yarn thread | A high-performance thread with a multifilament core surrounded by a sheath of staple fibres. | Umspinnzwirn | Fil guipé à âme | Hilo con núcleo | Filato core spun | 包芯线 | Chỉ lõi | ||||||||||||
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Do not confuse with wrapped yarn or simple spun thread.
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| Thread fundamentals and construction | Embroidery thread | Embroidery yarn | A thread designed for decorative or functional machine and hand embroidery. | Stickfaden | Fil à broder | Hilo de bordar | Filato da ricamo | 绣花线 | Chỉ thêu | ||||||||||||
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Do not confuse with bobbin thread used underneath machine embroidery.
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| Thread fundamentals and construction | Fibre | Fiber | A basic textile element with a high length-to-diameter ratio. | Faser | Fibre | Fibra | Fibra | 纤维 | Xơ | ||||||||||||
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British English: fibre; US English: fiber.
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| Thread fundamentals and construction | Filament | Continuous fibre | A fibre of theoretically unlimited length used individually or in bundles. | Filament / Endlosfaser | Filament | Filamento | Filamento | 长丝 | Filament | ||||||||||||
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Do not confuse a filament with a finished multifilament sewing thread.
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| Thread fundamentals and construction | Hybrid thread | Hybrid sewing thread | A thread combining different materials or structural components to deliver a specific performance profile. | Hybridzwirn | Fil hybride | Hilo híbrido | Filato ibrido | 混合线 | Chỉ lai | ||||||||||||
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State the exact material combination where possible.
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| Thread fundamentals and construction | Industrial sewing thread | Industrial thread | A sewing thread designed for reliable processing on industrial sewing machines. | Industrienähfaden | Fil à coudre industriel | Hilo de coser industrial | Filato cucirino industriale | 工业缝纫线 | Chỉ may công nghiệp | ||||||||||||
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Not every household sewing thread is suitable for industrial production.
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| Thread fundamentals and construction | Metallic thread | Metallic embroidery thread | A decorative thread containing or wrapped with a metallic-effect foil or component. | Metallfaden | Fil métallique | Hilo metálico | Filato metallico | 金属线 | Chỉ kim loại | ||||||||||||
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Metallic effect does not necessarily mean the thread is made of metal.
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| Thread fundamentals and construction | Microfilament | Fine filament | An especially fine filament used to produce soft, dense and covering thread structures. | Mikrofilament | Microfilament | Microfilamento | Microfilamento | 微细长丝 | Microfilament | ||||||||||||
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Microfilament describes filament fineness, not necessarily total thread size.
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| Thread fundamentals and construction | Monofilament | Single filament | A yarn consisting of one continuous filament. | Monofilament | Monofilament | Monofilamento | Monofilamento | 单丝 | Monofilament | ||||||||||||
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Monofilaments are usually stiffer than multifilaments.
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| Thread fundamentals and construction | Multifilament | Filament bundle | A yarn or thread made from many continuous filaments combined into one strand. | Multifilament | Multifilament | Multifilamento | Multifilamento | 复丝 | Đa filament | ||||||||||||
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Not the same as monofilament.
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| Thread fundamentals and construction | Ply | Number of plies; fold | The number of single yarns twisted together to form the finished thread. | Fachung | Nombre de brins | Número de cabos | Numero di capi | 股数 | Số ply | ||||||||||||
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Do not confuse ply with the number of sewing-machine threads in a stitch.
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| Thread fundamentals and construction | S-twist | S twist | A twist direction whose visible diagonal corresponds to the centre stroke of the letter S. | S-Drehung | Torsion S | Torsión S | Torsione S | S捻 | Xoắn S | ||||||||||||
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Opposite of Z-twist.
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| Thread fundamentals and construction | Sewing thread | Sewing yarn | A thread engineered to form durable stitches and seams in a sewing process. | Nähfaden | Fil à coudre | Hilo de coser | Filato cucirino | 缝纫线 | Chỉ may | ||||||||||||
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Not to be confused with
Do not use “yarn” and “sewing thread” as exact synonyms in technical explanations.
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| Thread fundamentals and construction | Sheath | Covering; fibre sheath | The outer fibre layer surrounding the core of a core spun thread. | Mantel / Ummantelung | Gaine | Cubierta | Guaina | 包覆层 | Vỏ bọc | ||||||||||||
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Do not use “coating” unless an actual coating is meant.
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| Thread fundamentals and construction | Single yarn | Single | One yarn component before two or more yarns are twisted together into a thread. | Einfachgarn | Fil simple | Hilo sencillo | Filato singolo | 单纱 | Sợi đơn | ||||||||||||
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Do not confuse with a single-thread stitch class.
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| Thread fundamentals and construction | Spun thread | Spun sewing thread | A thread whose single yarns are made from short staple fibres twisted together. | Fasergarn | Fil de fibres discontinues | Hilo de fibra cortada | Filato in fibra discontinua | 短纤纱线 | Chỉ xơ cắt | ||||||||||||
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Do not translate as “gesponnener Faden” in AMANN product taxonomy.
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| Thread fundamentals and construction | Staple fibre | Cut fibre; short fibre | A fibre of limited length that is spun together with other fibres to form a yarn. | Stapelfaser | Fibre discontinue | Fibra discontinua | Fibra discontinua | 短纤维 | Xơ ngắn | ||||||||||||
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Not the same as a continuous filament.
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| Thread fundamentals and construction | Surface structure | Thread surface | The physical character of a thread surface, such as smooth, fibrous or textured. | Oberflächenstruktur | Structure de surface | Estructura superficial | Struttura superficiale | 表面结构 | Cấu trúc bề mặt | ||||||||||||
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Surface structure is influenced by construction and finishing.
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| Thread fundamentals and construction | Textured multifilament | Texturised multifilament; bulked filament | A multifilament whose filaments are permanently crimped to create volume and softness. | Texturiertes Multifilament | Multifilament texturé | Multifilamento texturizado | Multifilamento testurizzato | 变形复丝 | Đa filament texturised | ||||||||||||
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Not to be confused with
Do not confuse with spun thread or air-textured yarn.
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