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Glossary Of Fabric Terms [27]

H Habotai One of the most basic plain weaves of silk fabric. While it was traditionally woven in Japan, most Habutai is today woven in China. It is normally a lining silk but can also be used for T-shirts, lampshades, summer blouses or very light lingerie. It is quite easy to dye and can be found in many stores. Used mainly for making silk kimonos.
Haircloth Stiff, unsupple fabric typically made from horsehair and/or from the wooly hair of a camel. Although horsehair generally refers to the hair of a horse's mane or tail, haircloth itself is sometimes called horsehair. Horse or camel hair woven into haircloth may be fashioned into clothing or upholstery.
Halas lace Type of needle lace which first appeared in 1902 in the town of Kiskunhalas, Hungary, colloquially known as "Halas". The lace was typically soft orange, pale green and yellow in colouring.
Hand Knitting A form of knitting, in which the knitted fabric is produced by hand using needles.
Harris Tweed Cloth handwoven by islanders at their homes in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, made from pure virgin wool dyed and spun in the Outer Hebrides. Named after Lewis and Harris, the most populous Scottish island.
Hatchi A versatile knit fabric with many uses. Soft and crease-resistant fabric with a fluid drape perfect for many types of garments. It has more loopy, open-knit texture than regular cotton knits and it is usually made of blends of cotton and wool, polyester, or spandex.
Haute Couture The creation of exclusive custom-fitted clothing. Haute couture is high end fashion that is constructed by hand from start to finish, made from high quality, expensive, often unusual fabric and sewn with extreme attention to detail and finished by the most experienced and capable sewers, often using time-consuming, hand-executed techniques.
Health and Safety Controls The control of health and safety conditions in production facilities.
Heat presses A machine designed to press and apply heat to paper inserted between its surfaces. Used in lamination, to set or cure certain inks, or for applying heat-sensitive paper images to fabric or other material. Have your favourite image immortalized with a dry mount. We offer a variety of heat press services.
Heat Setting Term used in the textile industry to describe a thermal process taking place mostly in either a steam atmosphere or a dry heat environment. The effect of the process gives fibers, yarns or fabric dimensional stability and, very often, other desirable attributes like higher volume, wrinkle resistance or temperature resistance.
Heat Stabilization An additive-free preservation technology for tissue samples which stops degradation and changes immediately and permanently. Heat stabilization uses rapid conductive heating, under controlled pressure, to generate a fast, homogeneous and irreversible thermal denaturation of proteins, resulting in a complete and permanent elimination of all enzymatic activity that would otherwise cause further biological changes to the tissue sample.
Heather In clothing, heather refers to interwoven yarns of mixed colors producing flecks of an alternate color. It is typically used to mix multiple shades of grey or grey with another color to produce a muted shade (e.g., heather green), but any two colors can be mixed, including bright colors.
Heddle An integral part of a loom. Each thread in the warp passes through a heddle, which is used to separate the warp threads for the passage of the weft.
Hem A garment finishing method, where the edge of a piece of cloth is folded narrowly and sewn to prevent unravelling of the fabric.
Hemming A garment finishing method, where the edge of a piece of cloth is folded narrowly and sewn to prevent unravelling of the fabric.
Hemp Cannabis grown for fibre, food, paper, fuel, or other non-drug uses. Historically, the textile uses have been most important.
Herringbone Also called Broken Twill Weave, it is a distinctive V-shaped weaving pattern usually found in twill fabric. The pattern is called herringbone because it resembles the skeleton of a herring fish. Herringbone-patterned fabric is usually wool, and is one of the most popular cloths used for suits and outerwear. Tweed cloth is often woven with a herringbone pattern.
Himroo Fabric made of silk and cotton, which is grown locally in Aurangabad, India. Himroo uses Persian designs, and is very characteristic and distinctive in appearance. Himroo from Aurangabad is in demand for its unique style and design.
Hodden Also known as wadme, itl is a coarse kind of cloth made of undyed wool, formerly much worn by the peasantry of Scotland. It was usually made on small hand-looms by the peasants. Hodden grey was made by mixing black and white fleeces together in the proportion of one to twelve when weaving.
Holland cloth Plainwoven or dull-finish linen used as furniture covering or a cotton fabric made more or less opaque by a glazed or unglazed finish. Originally the name was applied to any fine, plainwoven linens imported from Europe, and particularly from the Netherlands. Used for window shades, insulation, labels and tags, sign cloth, etc
Hollie Point lace English needle lace noted for its use in baby clothes in the 18th and 19th century, especially those made for christenings.
Hollow Filament Fibers Fibers with mechanically or chemically engineered interior voids that provide soil hiding characteristics through the diffusion of light.
Homespun A plain-weave cloth made at home, or of homespun yarn. Usually rustic in its appearance.
Hook and Loop Fastening Commonly known as "velcro", it is a fasting consisting of two components: typically, two lineal fabric strips which are attached to the opposing surfaces to be fastened.
Hopsack Coarse fabric made of cotton, wool, or other fibers and similar to burlap, used in the manufacture of wearing apparel.
Houndstooth Also known as dogstooth, is a duotone textile pattern characterized by broken checks or abstract four-pointed shapes, often in black and white, although other colours are used. The classic houndstooth pattern is an example of a tessellation. A smaller scale version of the pattern can be referred to as puppytooth
Huckaback A type of coarse absorbent cotton or linen fabric used for making towels.