Abstract: An apparatus 5 for applying a creasing setting agent in order to achieve a permanent crease in a textile article such as pants, sheets or the like. The apparatus comprises a support member 12, having a guide member 24 for receiving the textile article to be creased. The support member 12 is mounted on another support or plate 10. There is also included a detachably mounted applicator 31 having a nozzle 34 the applicator being mounted at the one end 50 of the plate member 10 so that the nozzle 34 may be inserted into the opening 32 in the guide member 24. Also a stop member 40 is provided on the guide member 24 and between the opening 32 and the end 50 to substantially preclude hand operation of the applicator as the textile article is being finished.

Abstract: A process for the production of a pleated textile fabric, which comprises first forming a spiral tube from a plane fabric by joining together the two selvedges of said fabric; then in known manner pleating this spiral tube and fixing the pleats thus formed; and finally undoing the join connecting the two selvedges of the fabric.The invention relates also to a weft and warp woven pleated fabric wherein the pleats are disposed on the bias and the weft threads are inclined.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for making textured patterns on originally smooth web of fabric which was subjected to a mechanical pleating treatment, i.e., which was provided with upright or flat permanently fixed pleats in regular or irregular distribution.For this purpose, the mechanically pleated web of material is continuously heated and the pleated pleats are deformed simultaneously or subsequently to the heating either by tensioning the web of fabric or by at least partial compression of the pleats. The deformation is then fixed by cooling the web of fabric. In addition, the textured fabric may be partially printed in the transfer-printing method in a color and/or pattern deviating from the base material within the areas of the textured web of fabric, in that a web of thermal printing paper is pressed against the web of fabric in the desired color or the desired pattern during the heating step.