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ACTUAL DRAFT [1 record]

Record 1 1999-10-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Textile Industries
  • Thread Spinning (Textiles)
OBS

Draft: the extent to which raw stock, sliver, slubbing, and roving are drawn-out or lengthened.

OBS

Drawing also called drafting, in yarn manufacture, process of attenuating the loose assemblage of fibres called sliver (q.v.) by passing it through a series of rollers, thus straightening the individual fibres and making them more parallel. Each pair of rollers spins faster than the previous one.

OBS

Actual: ... Existing in act or fact; really acted or acting. ... In action or existence at the time; present, current.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Industries du textile
  • Filature (Textiles)

Spanish

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