Fabric and Fiber Jargon
June 24, 2008 4:00 pm Glossaries, Quilting, Sewing
| Color: | a phenomenon of light or visual perception that enables one to differentiate identical items |
| Color Value: | Lightness or darkness of a color |
| Consistency: | the thinness or thickness of a fabric or fibre |
| Contrast: | the sharp difference between two colors |
| Count: | The number given a yarn or fiber to indicate its yardage per weight |
| Crinkling: | To make or become wrinkled, rippled, roughened, or creased; usually done to fabrics like linen, challis, silk, or cotton |
| Dye: | a color used for staining, tinting, or toning a medium. There is no separation of ingredients once dye is made |
| Finishing: | Any treatment given to a fabric after weaving or to garments after cleaning to improve appearance like sizing or ironing |
| Hand: | The feel, body, drape, or touch of the surface of fabric |
| Hue: | the name of a pure color |
| Intensity: | color’s purity or strength |
| Nib, Nep, Nubb: | Small bits of fiber that stick above surface of otherwise smooth fabric |
| Piece: | Length of fabric |
| Primary colors: | red, blue, yellow |
| Secondary colors: | mixing of primary colors; green, orange, purple |
| Skein: | a coil of yarn also called hank |
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