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An apparel or any other textile product is
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incomplete as far as it is not finished with
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Textile Products trims, closures and accessories. A dress, a bag
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or any such product has to be fitted with
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closures like buckles, buttons, clips, elastic
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fasteners, grommets, hook and eye, hook and
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loop, metal fasteners, plastic fasteners, rivets,
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snaps, velcro, zippers etc so that it doesn't loose its functionality.
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Other support accessories are also required sometimes for
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All about Textile bra cups, bra fillers, bra molding, collar stays, corsets, felt,
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fusibles, interfacings, interlinings, linings, quilted linings,
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shoulder pads, sleeve heads, suspenders, underwire, waistbands
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etc. For giving style and designer look to a piece of textile
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product, many types of trims are also prevalent including apparel
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Tools logos, appliques, embroidered emblems, embroidery patterns,
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Textile Personalities reflective trim, ruffles, yokes, ribbons, laces, tapes, Webbings,
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Cords, Straps etc. A brief description of some of the trims,
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closures and accessories will help understand their role in the
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finishing of textile products.
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Buttons
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Buttons are small plastic or metal disc shaped,
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usually round, object. They are generally
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attached to an article of clothing for securing
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its opening. Sometimes they are used for
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ornamentation too. Buttons have to be slipped
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through a fabric or a thread loop, or slid
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through a buttonhole. A wide range of
materials are used for manufacturing buttons although plastic
viewmorebuttons are the most prevalent ones. Others include natural
materials like bone, horn, ivory, shell, vegetable ivory, wood and
synthetic materials such as celluloid, glass, metal and bakelite.
The size of the button depends on its use. They are usually
measured in lignes, also called lines and abbreviated as L. 40
lignes are equal to 1 inch. Functional buttons, as opposed to
decorative buttons, are commonly paired with a buttonhole which

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may either be hand or machine sewn.

Buckles
Buckles are clasps used for holding two things Free
together, such as the ends of a belt. They are
sometimes used to fasten boots and other Pipette
shoes or sandals. They can also be found on
backpacks, watches and other wrist jewelry, or Technique
for decorative purposes on other objects.
Buckles are usually made of metal or plastic. Poster - 1
The fashion of custom buckles is on a rise and people mostly like
to have their name or nicknames on buckles. These buckles are Pipetting
prepared with great care giving them various finishes like
chrome, rhinestone, gold color etc. Tips &
Fasteners Tricks
Fasteners are hardware devices that
mechanically join or affix two or more objects Get a free
together. In textile industry, they are generally
used to close a bag or a box or other similar
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types of products. They are also essential for Rainin! Improv
setting up tents for various purposes. results &
Upholstery too requires fasteners for affixing
textile material to furnitures. Metal and plastic, both types of reduce
fasteners are manufactured for various purposes. common
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Grommets are reinforced eyelets, as in cloth
or leather, through which a fastener may be
passed. The term is also used for a small metal
or plastic ring used to reinforce such an
eyelet. If any material such as metal or
leather has a hole made in it, the hole may
have sharp edges. The soft vulnerable material
such as laces passing through the hole can be distorted resulting
in damage. Thus, rubber, plastic or plastic coated metal
grommets are used as shielding to avoid such damages.

Rivets
Rivets are mechanical fastener. They consist of
a smooth cylindrical shaft with a head on one
end. The end opposite the head is called the
buck-tail. For using a rivet, it has to be placed
in a hole. Then the tail is usually deformed so
that it expands to about 1.5 times the original
shaft diameter and holds the rivet in place. To
distinguish between the two ends of the rivet, the original head is
called the factory head and the deformed end is called the shop
head or buck-tail. Different types of rivets such as solid rivets,
blind rivets, multi-grip rivets, grooved rivets, peel type blind
rivets, self-pierce rivets, plastic rivets, tubular rivets, etc are
manufactured and are used in various industry. In textile industry,
they have find an important application in the manufacturing of
jeans.

Velcros
Velcros are kinds of hook-and-loop fasteners. They consist of two
layers. One of its portion is called "hook" side, which is a piece of
fabric and is covered with tiny hooks. The other portion is the
"loop" side, which is covered with even smaller and "hairier"
loops. When the two sides are pressed together, the hooks catch
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in the loops and hold the pieces together.

Velcro can be made of cotton, nylon or
polyester. Velcro is extensively used in
products like jackets, gloves, shoes etc. Velcro
made of Teflon loops, polyester hooks, and
glass backing is used on space shuttles.

Zippers
Zippers are devices for temporarily joining two
edges of fabric or other material. They are
used in clothing , luggage and other bags,
sporting goods, camping gear such as tents and
sleeping bags and many other daily use items.
No other closure is as extensively used in
textile products as zippers. They are made of
various materials including metal, plastics, nylon etc. Various
types of zippers are manufactured these days. The bag type
zippers have two sliders. When it is closed, the sliders meet at
any point on the zipper. These are commonly used for bags. The
Closed End zippers have one slider and operate in one way only.
These are used for apparels, purses, tents etc. The Coverall
zippers, as the name indicates, are used on coveralls. Its one end
is open and one end is closed. The Open End zippers are
commonly used on the front of jackets and on any item that
requires the zipper halves to fully detach from each other. Two
Way Open End zippers have two slides and can be opened from
the top and/or the bottom. They are used for heavy winter coats
where more leg room may be needed for such works as driving
car, while still keeping the top slider zipped up. The zipper halves
completely separate just like a standard jacket zipper.

Corset
Corset is an undergarment traditionally made
of stiffened material laced tight to the body
and was used earlier for molding and shaping
the torso into a desired shape. Both men and
women are known to wear corsets, though
women are more common wearers. The
modern "corsets" and "corset tops" have very little effect on the
shape of the wearer's body. An overbust corset encloses the torso,
extending from just under the arms to the hips. An underbust
corset begins just under the breasts and extends down to the
hips. Some corsets extend over the hips. A shorter kind of corset,
which covers only the waist area is called a 'waist cincher'.
Cotton, linen, satin and silk are generally used for manufacturing
corsets. l.

Lace
Lace is an openwork fabric which is patterned
with open holes. It can be made by machine or
by hand. Originally linen, silk, gold, or silver
threads were used for making laces.
Nowadays, lace is generally made with cotton
and synthetic thread. There are various types
of laces based on the style of their
manufacturing. Needle lace is made by using a needle and
thread. Cutwork or whitework lace is made by removing threads
from a woven background. Bobbin Lace is made with bobbins and
a pillow. The bobbins, made of wood, bone or plastic, hold
threads which are woven together and held in place with pins
stuck in the pattern on the pillow. Tape lace makes the tape in
the lace as it is worked. It can also use a machine or hand-made
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textile strip formed into a design, then joined and embellished

with needle or bobbin lace. Knotted lace is made with a shuttle
or a tatting needle. Crocheted lace are made with crochets.
When laces are made by knitting, they are called knitted lace.

Webbings
Webbings are strong woven fabrics made in a
shape of flat strip or tube in variety of widths.
They are often used in place of rope. These
days, webbings are made from high-strength
material such as Dyneema, Nylon, Polyester,
and Kevlar. Other materials used for making
webbings include cotton, polypropylene and
flax. Webbings are both, light and strong. As such they are used in
variety of applications including climbing, slacklining, furniture
manufacturing, automobile safety, auto racing, towing,
parachuting, military apparel, transportation and many other
applications.

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