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Mechanics
- A bundle is weaker than its threads
- A cloth cannot carry a push
- A cloth extends by moving its crimp
- A cloth has one budget for two directions
- A cloth's Poisson ratio is not a material's
- A figure is harder on its warp
- A flattened thread is a record of a force
- A tensioned cloth loses its load
- A thickness is a maximum, not a mean
- A yarn's stiffness is a bracket, not a number
- Bending stiffness and the drape coefficient
- A drape coefficient is one number for a directional thing
- Pulled both ways, only one can give
- Recovery is measured and nothing predicts it
- Shear locking in a composite preform
- The back shaft works hardest
- The bias is a mechanism
- The locking angle
- The locus gets a force
- The nodes a drape test throws away
- The relaxed cloth's contact force
- The shed is an extension
- The stiffness with no lower bound
- The swelling a cloth cannot take
- Warmth is a thickness of air
- Water tells two fibres apart
- What the shed costs, in newtons
- Why clothes need darts
- A yarn breaks at its thinnest place
- A straight fibre cannot share the load
- What grips the end of a fibre
- The singles inside a ply are not the singles
- Twist decides where in the bracket
- A cloth compresses along its own bearing curve
- A compression curve is two laws in series
- Warmth is mostly the hairs
- A force is what an energy does when a crossing moves
- What a loop presses with
- What a loop model still cannot say
- The modulus a knit has instead of one
- A knit bends more easily along its courses
- What friction has to hold in a relaxed knit
- A loop is a plane curve in another plane
- What leaving the plane costs
- The force that holds a knit open
- How little asymmetry a curl needs
- What a knit gives up when it is pressed
- A thread has a second stiffness
- Twist is not torsion
- The one fibre whose answer is known
- What a closed thread cannot choose
- Where a torsion model stops
- Flattening is free and impossible
- The section that changes both stiffnesses
- What a contact model would have to do
- A fabric reads its own bracket four ways
- Where this collection's thread model now stands
- A thread between two crossings is an elastica
Finishing
- A calender spends the compression for good
- A cloth cannot shrink past its own crimp
- A cloth relaxes until its threads stop pushing
- A cloth shrinks most the first time
- A crease is a fold the crimp cannot supply
- A dimension without a state
- A finish spends a spread before it spends a mean
- A knit's dimensions come from its loop
- Calendering is the cloth arriving at the other model
- Coated is a state
- Mercerising is a packing factor
- Milling holds the cloth a second time
- Only a float can be raised
- Pre-shrinking is a subtraction done in advance
- Raising spends the cloth's strength
- Relaxation is the crimp coming back
- Shrink-resist is one number
- The cloth gains weight by losing size
- The constants do not compose
- The pore that wicks is the pore that leaks
- The ratchet that makes wool felt
- Two shrinkages, one tape measure
- What comes off the loom is not the cloth
- Which fibres crease, and why there are two answers
- Why agitation helps a cloth relax
- Why felting needs water
- Why the warp shrinks more
- Singeing is the cheapest change to a surface
- Raising moves the surface onto the hairs
- A coating fills the crowns before it bridges the holes
- Friction is two surfaces, not one
- A hair layer is a balance, not a stock
- A print is as sharp as the hairs are long
- A loop is set and not sprung
- Two knits with one tightness factor are one knit
- What holds a nap in a knit
- The constants say nothing about thickness
- A rib's relaxation is not its bending either
- A state is a thickness too
- A yarn that has been set has no torque
- The twist a fabric gives back
- A wet knit's yarn is flatter
- What wetting does to the bending limit
- The diameter that does need a state
- A wrinkle cannot settle what a crease settles
- A crease cannot cross a seam
- A jersey has no float for a wire to catch
- A nap is paid for by the taper of the pattern
Pattern
- A check is two stripes and a tartan is one
- A figure is not a stripe
- A figured cloth has a step in its surface
- A motif is drawn at the wrong shape on purpose
- A random error hides and a periodic one shows
- A rectangular block is not half a rule
- A shading changes two things at once
- A slub finds the width of the cloth
- A stripe is a partition of the warp
- A woven outline is a staircase
- Colour and weave as a two-colour problem
- Colour and weave
- How many cloths are there
- Opacity is not cover
- The diagonal is not a thread
- The reed leaves its own mark
- The seventeen groups a draft can have
- Two layers are the product on average and nowhere
- Watered silk is a beat
- Weaves as plane patterns
- What a figure costs the loom
- What else the relative origin decides
- A cloth cannot be more even than its yarn
- A figure shows by its shine, not its step
- A cloth is more opaque than it is closed
- A crepe is a yarn that will not lie still
- A shadow stripe is two twists
- A tone ramp is a valley, and the satin digs it
- A weave is a halftone screen with n greys
- A colour order beats the weave it is threaded on
- A moiré is a vernier, and it magnifies the error too
- A damask's edge floats further than its figure
- No weave draws an unbroken line one thread wide
- A sheer hides whichever side is darker
- A weft stripe is counted in pairs of picks
- A figured sheer is a negative from one side
- A six-end shading can be even or have a plain centre, not both
- A tone step does not need a satin
- Two sheers make a moiré that walks with the viewer
- A net over a voile beats through a harmonic
- A net in front gives the figure to the room
- A curtain is gathered so that it is seen edge-on
- What a sheer hides is decided by the furniture
- An unbroken line is not a clean one
- The finest colour-and-weave effects need the rarest loom
- An even shading cannot keep its surface level
- A net of three directions beats a voile one way at a time
- A colour-and-weave look costs its cheaper order
- A turned block is a moved origin
Applied
- A cloth does not mind a hole
- A cloth stops having holes before it stops passing air
- A coated cloth fails at its holes
- A fabric to fill and a fabric to load
- A filter cloth has two jobs
- A filter is rated by the hole it does not show
- A hemisphere costs one full turn
- A knee is a dome imposed a thousand times
- A membrane is cut smaller than it is
- A seam slips before it breaks
- A tear asks fewer threads than a pull
- A tear stops where the grip is
- A tow is not a yarn
- A windproof cloth is at its yarn's limit
- How far a cut edge frays
- How high a cloth wicks
- The angle a hose wants
- The bias cut and the selvedge
- The crimp is the price of being cloth
- The hole between four threads
- The stitch that weakens the seam
- The third index is not a repeat
- The wind takes the air and not the cloth
- What holds a thread in a seam
- Wicking is slower along a crimped thread
- A missing end is a fault the length of the piece
- A sewing thread is a different animal
- A cloth loses its strength before its mass
- A seam stands proud and wears first
- Abrasion takes the hairs first
- A pill is anchored, not made
- The strong fibre is the one that pills
- Prickle is a buckling load
- A woven filter beats its own rating
- The knitted pilling criterion gets its number
- A run is a race between two energies
- A seam must give what the knit gives
- A knit is warm because of where its yarn is not
- A run cannot cross a bed
- A knot is nothing but contact
- Where a knot breaks
- A knot halves a yarn and says why
- Which yarns knot well
- What a cuff presses with
- A tube of one size presses the calf harder than the ankle
- A garment is cut dry and worn wet
- An inflated beam wrinkles at a moment with no cloth in it
- An inflated cylinder wants an unbalanced cloth
- A grade charges by the length and a cutter pays by the panel
- A fault map is worth most where the grade is worst
Cloth
- A cloth gives back less than it took
- A cloth is a population, not a thread
- A hole is a channel, not an opening
- A thread is gripped where it turns
- A thread is held one crossing at a time
- A yarn's voids are not enough
- Braids and the third thread system
- Does it hang together
- Every cloth there is, at four by four
- Every crossing is a force
- Four ways to write a weave down
- How many layers a draft can have
- Nonwovens, and what holds them together instead
- The draft is a matrix
- The most a cloth can give back
- Two coefficients, not one
- What a repeat repeats
- A fabric is a structure, not a material
- What the matrix cannot say
- What water does to a thread
- The spread was never free
- The hairs are what touch
- A cloth has an outside
- The curve that says what a cloth touches with
- Two drafts of twenty-two thousand
- How much of a cloth is touching
- A thickness gauge reads the draft
- A yarn's surface is a distribution
- A yarn has a diameter for every instrument
- Two hairiness meters read two moments
- A light touch never reaches the crowns
- The hairs decide the sign of the wetting
- What a thickness gauge reads on a knit
- Every fabric's thread lies in a plane
- Why a knit runs and a weave frays
- Where a yarn is thinnest
- The closest approach is not the crossing
- A fabric is a population of contacts
- A profile draft is a notation whose alphabet is weaves
- A lifting plan says nothing without a threading
- A repeat has to fit the panel, and the panel is cut
- A repeat has to fit the width
- Two lots of one cloth drift apart down a drop
- A skew steps at every seam and a bow at none
- The census counted two systems and a surface has one
- Four drafts in five have no path along their own crowns
- A cotton's own water is a twentieth of what a cloth holds
- A wet fibre is stiffer and a wet yarn is not locked
Weaves
- A cord is a stripe with no colour in it
- A crepe cannot be structureless
- A float presses on nothing
- A hole with nothing crossing
- A honeycomb gets its cells in the wash
- A mispick is one row in the wrong place
- A satin's hole is a slot
- A seersucker is made at the loom
- Broken and herringbone twills
- Designing to a float limit
- Does a loose weave tear better
- Floats and abrasion
- How many shafts a draft needs
- How many twills a repeat admits
- How sharply a weave lets a cloth fold
- Interlacings and firmness
- Only a plain weave has one size of hole
- Plain, twill and satin
- The float decides
- The six-end satin that does exist
- The three basic weaves do not generate the rest
- Twill direction, and how it is named
- What a missing end does to the weave
- What combining two weaves reaches
- Which weave hides a fault
- Why satin shines
- The other crepe is in the yarn
- A float reflects into a line
- Lustre is a length times a width
- A calender buys the width
- Turn the cloth and the shine changes hands
- A crepe is flat in its draft and not in its surface
- A hair layer veils a highlight
- A woven cloth is not linked at all
- A woven cloth asked the same question
- A group is one thread for cover and two for bending
- A cord's height has a ceiling and its width has none
- The four named weaves are corners of a family
- What nothing separates comes out together
- There is no satin on six ends
- Which satins are worth weaving
- Most satins still have a diagonal
- Backed and stitched constructions
- A cloth slips at its least-interlaced thread
- A selvedge holds only where its edge end changes face
- No cloth derives into more than three others
- A float limit leaves one row-free satin
- An irregular satin scatters where a regular one lines up
- A satin's row belongs to its sett
- A cloth's derivation class is its census of small patches
Fancy
- A crushed pile is not held down by its fibres
- A leno's hole cannot drift
- A tube and two cloths are the same draft
- A wetting supplies the force the criterion needs
- Corduroy is a cut float
- How a tuft is held
- A jacquard is every end its own shaft
- Leno is not a matrix
- Pile is a third thread system
- Terry needs two beams
- The criterion cannot see friction
- The criterion gets a force
- The harness does not grow
- The harness has a depth
- Velvet is cut apart
- What a dobby stores
- What holds a pick in
- What holds a tuft in, in newtons
- Where a stitch can hide
- Where the heddles go
- Three mistakes and the shape each one leaves
- A tuft is set so it cannot untwist
- A chenille is a yarn that is already a fabric
- A pile is the only surface with no crowns
- Hair, nap and pile are one construction
- A leno twists what a weave only crosses
- A braid is a third way to hold threads
- An interchange joins what a stitch would have had to
- Two layers need two beams
- The repeat allows four layers and the loom allows two
- A designed thin place is kinder than an accidental one
- A damask is its own complement
- A point tie nearly doubles the float at the turn
- A brocade weft floats as far as the next figure
- A jacquard harness needs three half-spans of height
- A double cloth is only softer if its yarn is set
- A bouclé is set by its loops and weighed by its count
- A fancy yarn has its crimp in the wrong thread
- The doup end pays for the crossing
- A bouclé loop is an elastica, not a semicircle
- An easer gives back the kink the crossed shed puts in
- A loop has a maximum force in it
- A bouclé wears from the loops down
- A jacquard's harness has a depth after all
- A damask is the only figure that costs its beam nothing
- A heddle eye lets the kink through
- A figured warp needs a beam for every share of its figure
Knits
- A fashioned edge has a quantised angle
- A jersey leans because its yarn still turns
- A knit has no hole to lose
- A knit is soft because it bends
- A knit relaxes for as long as it is allowed to
- A knit's change of state is not its swelling
- A loop has no closure condition
- A second bed changes what a float is
- A tube can only be shaped by its loop
- Does a double jersey hang together
- Knit, tuck and miss
- Ravel, fray and run
- Rib and interlock
- The float in a knit
- The loop
- What a second guide bar is for
- Warp knitting, which is a different thing entirely
- What a tuck costs
- What stops a knit extending
- Why a knit recovers and a woven does not
- Why stockinette curls
- Why a knit shows a thick place
- A jersey has two surfaces
- A knit gives up its fibres more easily
- A loop is nine tenths free run
- The relaxed knit is not at a minimum
- A jersey gets taller before it gets shorter
- How far a knit could go if its yarn were the limit
- A rib pulls back on a force the loop supplies
- A rib climbs a gap
- Where a two-bed fabric's yarn is
- A rib is quietest at two diameters
- Which knitted fabrics lie flat
- A tube and an interlock balance for different reasons
- How thick a knit is
- A jersey's course has no writhe
- A point cannot link
- Five symptoms of one omission
- The fabric that does not fit
- The flattening nobody fitted
- A flattening that follows the tightness factor
- Contact is not why a jersey stops
- What holds a crest apart
- A loop bends at twice its own radius
- A tuck is the one stitch that links twice
- A circular machine leans its courses whatever the yarn
- A course is one thread and a warp is many
- What a knit gives when it is pulled
- A tuck decides whether a third of two-bed fabrics lean
Setting
- A pick density is a force budget
- A wet cloth is set closer than it was woven
- Balance, and what an unbalanced cloth does
- Crimp, and why cloth narrows when it is pulled
- What crimp interchange actually conserves
- Half the air goes through a tenth of the holes
- How close can threads be set
- One minus the cover is a cloth with no thickness
- Peirce against the racetrack, measured
- Peirce and Kemp are one cloth at two moments
- The blow that sets the pick
- The cloth that was called impossible
- The construction a loom must be set to
- The crimp ratio is not a measurement
- The fourth power is a close cloth's rule
- The half of the beat-up that is all zone
- The reed is not the sett
- The sett decides how much, not how high
- The setts a loom can reach
- The weave decides the sett, and two models disagree about it
- The yarn count systems, and why there are several
- Thread count is not quality
- Twist and the twill line
- Twist is one angle
- Wetting moves a cloth to another locus
- What a fabric weighs
- Where the cover factor comes from
- A warp jams where its threads are thickest
- How many fibres make a thread
- A finer yarn is a worse yarn
- The other half of the twist curve
- Folding is untwisting
- A two-fold yarn is not twice a single
- The diameter was quoted at one twist
- The sett owns the pitch and the yarn owns the height
- Hairiness goes as the root of the count
- The spinning triangle decides the hair
- A woven thread has no room to bend
- How dense a knitted fabric is
- Why a slack yarn snarls
- How much yarn has to hang
- A snarl comes in one size
- The folding rule is not a torque balance
- The folding rule is a surface angle
- What a balanced yarn is balanced about
- A cabled yarn is a fold of folds
- What a high-twist yarn costs a cloth
- What a sett is when the yarn is not round
- What a flattened yarn does to its cover
- The count that decides how flat
- A weight fixes the fibre and not the drape