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Textile spinning

Author: Raoul HAGÈGE

Publication date: October 10, 1998

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  • Raoul HAGÈGE: Doctor-Engineer - Former Laboratory Director, Institut Textile de France (ITF) - Paris

 INTRODUCTION

Until the end of the 19th century, natural fibers from agriculture (cotton and linen) and livestock farming (wool, silk, etc.) were used to make fabrics (woven, knitted, etc.) for clothing, towels, tablecloths, sheets, curtains and veils, and technical textiles (boat sails, tents, marquees, tarpaulins, geotextiles, building architecture, etc.).Until the end of the 19th century, natural fibers from agriculture (cotton, linen, etc.) and livestock farming (wool, silk, etc.) were used.) For a little over a century, the needs of all markets for these various products have led to the increasingly massive use, alongside natural fibers, of fibers that do not exist in nature, known as synthetic fibers (or sometimes chemical fibers).

Textile spinning essentially involves the manufacture of these synthetic fibers. Not only can they replace natural fibers in terms of quantity, but they also provide original characteristics to meet new needs. This is why textile spinning technology has been constantly evolving since it was invented in the 1880s, and now includes the manufacture of fibers with "high mechanical properties", such as carbon or ceramic fibers.

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