Abstract: The invention relates to a method for forming a mesh having a barbed suture attached thereto, comprising the following steps: a) producing a knitted structure on a knitting machine comprising at least one needle-bed with three guide bars, on a length corresponding to N stitches ranging from 1 to N, wherein i) a first knit portion is produced along stitches ranging from 1 to x, where 1<x<N, ii) a second knit portion is produced for stitches ranging from (x+1) to N, in which the knitting pattern produces at least one weft stitched chain stitch, b) cutting the second knit portion on both sides of the weft stitched chain stitch and along an edge separating the second knit portion from the first knit portion, while maintaining the weft stitched chain stitch attached to the first knit portion. The invention also relates to the mesh obtained by this method.

Abstract: A process is described wherein pile yarn is woven with cotton weft and warp yarns to produce terry fabrics, such as towels. The fabric is then washed in warm water to dissolve the PVA fibers. The amount of fibers dissolved, depends upon the count of the yarn or yarns used. By dissolving the PVA fibers, a hollow air space is produced throughout the pile yarn, corresponding to an increase in the air space in the pile yarn. By increasing the air space in the pile yarn, the resulting towels are softer and bulkier than standard cotton towels. The present invention further relates to pile yarn in terry woven fabric (warp yarn), or weft yarn, in the case of flat fabrics.

Abstract: Provided are a textured spun yarn (A0) obtained by twisting a starched and dried single spun yarn in the opposite direction to the twisting direction of the single spun yarn by the number of twists which is 1.3 to 3 times the number of twists of the single spun yarn, a textured spun yarn (A1) obtained by removing a starch agent in water from the textured spun yarn, a woven or knitted fabric obtained by dissolving and removing the starch agent in water from a woven or knitted fabric manufactured using the textured spun yarn (A0), and a woven or knitted fabric manufactured using the textured spun yarn (A1), and methods of manufacturing them.

Abstract: The woven fabric according to the invention comprises a warp and weft yarns, the weft yarns comprise first weft yarns and second weft yarns, the first weft yarns and the warp yarns form a base layer of the fabric, while the at least one plurality of second weft yarns forms an additional layer of the fabric that can be broken under a stress without damaging the base layer to change the appearance of the fabric and of the clothing articles made of said fabric.

Abstract: The present invention provides fabrics with cut loop group and a manufacturing method thereof, wherein the core yarn at the section where said loops are being cut is outwardly protruded from the covering yarns, while the synthetic fiber divided yarn, which is a core yarn, is separated into multiple filaments. The fabrics with cut loop group show superior characteristics in polishing properties, sliding properties, water absorption properties, rapid drying properties and feeling of touch owing to a split-type microfiber and a viscos rayon yarn which comprises a covering yarn, and polishing can be performed while easily catching foreign substances such as extremely minute dust particles or human hairs and the like by the synthetic fiber divided yarn which functions as a hook. Thus the fabrics with cut loop group according to the present invention can be used usefully in the products such as various kind of mats, towels, bathroom products, and the like including dishclothes and mops.

Abstract: Provided is a composite fiber capable of forming a fabric giving a good wearing feeling to a human body. This composite fiber is composed of a polyurethane elastomer having a glass transition temperature of 15 to 50° C. as a component A, and a readily soluble thermoplastic polymer as a component B. In a cross section of the fiber, the component A constitutes a core, and the component B covers 70% or longer of the circumference of the component A. The component B may be, for example, a readily soluble polyester or thermoplastic polyvinyl alcohol-based polymer. The composite ratio (mass ratio) of the component A to the component B may be 90:10 to 40:60.

Abstract: A wound dressing for use in vacuum wound therapy comprising a wound contact layer which is an open structure comprising a yarn comprising gel-forming filaments or fibres, the structure having a porosity which allows exudate to flow through it.

Abstract: A method for recycling a fiber laminae, the fiber laminae being impregnated with a partially cured resin, the partially cured resin being expired, the method comprising steps of jetting a solvent toward the fiber laminae; extracting the partially cured resin from the fiber laminae, said extraction being effected by impingements of the solvent jet against the fiber laminae's impregnated partially cured resin; and drying the fiber laminae.

Abstract: “Tinkles” (also known as “gotchas”) (see reference number 20 in FIGS. 1 and 2) are portions of knitted metal loops produced when a tube of knitted wire mesh is cut into individual pieces. In the prior art, tinkles have been considered a fact of life and the approach has been to try to shake them out of the mesh or immobilize them on or in the mesh. By producing a knitted tube (11) having alternating segments (12,13) of knitted rows of yarn and knitted rows of wire, completely tinkle-free knitted socks are produced which are used to produce completely tinkle-free knitted wire mesh filters. Knitted wire mesh filters that cannot release tinkles because they do not have any tinkles can be used in such applications as fuel filters and airbag filters.

Abstract: A process is described wherein pile yarn is woven with cotton weft and warp yarns to produce terry fabrics, such as towels. The fabric is then washed in warm water to dissolve the PVA fiber. The amount of fibers dissolved, depends upon the count of the yarn or yarns used. By dissolving the PVA fibers, a hollow air space is produced throughout the pile yarn, corresponding to an increase in the air space in the pile yarn. By increasing the in space in the pile yarn, the resulting towels are softer and bulkier than standard cotton towels. The present invention further relates to pile yarn in terry woven fabric (warp yarn), or weft yarn, in the case of flat fabrics.

Abstract: A process is described wherein pile yarn is woven with cotton weft and warp yarns to produce terry fabrics, such as towels. The fabric is then washed in warm water to dissolve the PVA fibers. The amount of fibers dissolved, depends upon the count of the yarn or yarns used. By dissolving the PVA fibers, a hollow air space is produced throughout the pile yarn, corresponding to an increase in the air space in the pile yarn. By increasing the air space in the pile yarn, the resulting towels are softer and bulkier than standard cotton towels. The present invention further relates to pile yarn in terry woven fabric (warp yarn), or weft yarn, in the case of flat fabrics.

Abstract: Crimp-imbalanced protective fabric is accomplished by varying the levels of yarn crimp within and across a layer or layers of a multi-layer fabric armor system. The method includes developing a crimp in the yarn (utilized for producing a fiber layer) by pulling the yarn through a solution that substantially coats the yarn. The removable coating has a thickness that ensures a proper amount of crimp in the yarn. The tension in the yarn is controlled; the yarn is weaved; and a crimp is applied in the yarn. Once the crimp is applied, families of the crimped yarn are utilized as a layer or layered to produce a soft armor form.

Abstract: Crimp-imbalanced protective fabric is accomplished by varying the levels of yarn crimp within and across a layer or layers of a multi-layer fabric armor system. The method includes developing a crimp in the yarn (utilized for producing a fiber layer) by pulling the yarn through a solution that substantially coats the yarn. The removable coating has a thickness that ensures a proper amount of crimp in the yarn. The tension in the yarn is controlled; the yarn is weaved; and a crimp is applied in the yarn. Once the crimp is applied, families of the crimped yarn are utilized as a layer or layered to produce a soft armor form.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a double-raschel knitted fabric tube W for artificial blood vessels is provided, which is configured of N cocoon filaments each formed of paired core parts formed of fibroin and a skin part surrounding the core parts and formed of sericin, separating the paired core parts with the sericin partially removed and partially left to form 2N plies of the fibroin with a skin core structure to obtain a sericin-coated silk thread configured of the 2N plies of fibroin having the skin core structure, then subjecting the sericin-coated silk thread to a first twist to produce a first-twist silk thread, further combining a plurality of the first-twist silk threads together and subjecting the combined first-twist silk threads to a second twist to produce an organzine silk thread, and then further knitting a tube shape by using the organzine silk thread T as a knitting thread Y.

Abstract: Crimp-imbalanced protective fabric is accomplished by varying the levels of yarn crimp within and across a layer or layers of a multi-layer fabric armor system. The method includes developing a crimp in the yarn (utilized for producing a fiber layer) by pulling the yarn through a solution that substantially coats the yarn. The removable coating has a thickness that ensures a proper amount of crimp in the yarn. The tension in the yarn is controlled; the yarn is weaved; and a crimp is applied in the yarn. Once the crimp is applied, families of the crimped yarn are utilized as a layer or layered to produce a soft armor form.

Abstract: The invention discloses Cyphometry a cryptographic system comprising ciferglifs, chaotiglyphs and word auras. Cyphometry is an esoteric mathematical system that is the direct result of a comparative study of the complex geometric patterns that are formed through specific adding formulas within its fixed number scales between the digits zero (0) and nine (9) used to create ciferglifs, chaotiglyphs and word auras.

Abstract: Methods for producing composites useful for the formation of both soft and hard armor. More particularly, methods for the production of ballistic resistant fibrous composites having improved ballistic resistance properties, including low backface signature. The methods employ fiber surface treatments to improve the anchorage of substances applied onto fiber surfaces, achieving a low delamination tendency and corresponding benefits.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for manufacturing a ramie fabric and the fabric. The process comprising the following steps: blend spinning a high-count ramie fiber such as a ramie fiber of 2500Nm or higher with a water-soluble fiber as carrier to form a yarn; sizing the yarn at a low temperature; weaving the yarn to form a gray fabric; then removing the water-soluble fiber from the gray fabric by deweighting the gray fabric during a printing and dyeing finishing process to obtain a super-high-count ramie fabric with a ramie yarn fineness of 160Nm or higher.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is the preparation of indigo-dyed cotton denim fabrics suitable for use in making cotton denim garments and other denim articles. These indigo-dyed fabrics are prepared from cotton warp yarn which has been pre-treated with an emulsion copolymer prior to being contacted with an aqueous dye liquor comprising a dispersion of an indigo dyestuff. Such copolymer-treated cotton warp yarn can be woven or knitted into cotton denim griege fabrics along with untreated cotton weft yarn. Such griege denim fabric can then be indigo-dyed using the aqueous dye liquor. Alternatively, the emulsion copolymer-treated cotton warp yarn can be indigo-dyed by contact with the aqueous dye liquor before this warp yarn is incorporated into denim fabric along with the untreated cotton weft yarn. The cotton denim fabric produced by either method has the appearance of conventional ring-dyed indigo fabrics.

Abstract: A cation exchange membrane includes: a membrane body containing a fluorine-based polymer having an ion-exchange group; and two or more reinforcing core materials arranged approximately in parallel within the membrane body. The membrane body is provided with two or more elution holes formed between the reinforcing core materials adjacent to each other. A distance between the reinforcing core materials adjacent to each other is represented by a, a distance between the reinforcing core materials and the elution holes adjacent to each other is represented by b, a distance between the elution holes adjacent to each other is represented by c, and the number of the elution holes formed between the reinforcing core materials adjacent to each other is represented by n.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing an isotropic pitch-based carbon fiber spun yarn fabric includes the following steps of: obtaining composite yarn by winding a water-soluble polymer fiber around a surface of isotropic pitch-based carbon fiber spun yarn; obtaining a composite yarn fabric by weaving the composite yarn; and obtaining the isotropic pitch-based carbon fiber spun yarn fabric by dissolving and removing the water-soluble polymer fiber from the composite yarn fabric.

Abstract: A method for forming a metallic fabric includes forming a composite yarn having a metallic wire core, and a cover yarn including a fluid-soluble strand such as co-nylon or polylactic acid. The composite yarn can be knitted into an intermediate fabric product. The soluble element is dissolved to leave a use fabric suitable for other processing, such as coating with materials such as latex. The non-fluid-soluble strand may be either a single strand or multi-filaments of steel wire.

Abstract: A process for the production of a worsted wool fabric. A single wool yarn is shielded by wrapping a polymeric filament around it, to form a combined yarn. The combined yarn is weaved and subsequently the shielding polymer, which may be a synthetic polymer, is separated from the wool. The single wool yarn may be dyed prior to weaving and the wool may be roving.

Abstract: Processes for forming embossed terry towels and the resulting towels are described herein. The towels have an uneven surface. Thus, the background can be at one height, and the design can be at another height, which is typically higher than the background. The process involves twisting the pile warp that will be used for the design on the towel with PVA filament yarn. The remaining pile warp, which is used to form the background, is 100% cotton. The pile warp is then woven with the ground warp and weft warp to form the towel. The towel is subject to a steaming process, which shrinks the PVA/cotton pile fibers, but does not affect the 100% cotton fibers. The PVA/cotton pile fibers shrink to at least about 50% of their original length under tension free conditions. The towel is then subjected to shearing to produce a velour texture. Due to the shrinkage of the PVA/cotton pile yarns, only the background (100% cotton) pile is cut, and the shrunk pile remains uncut.

Abstract: A method for producing an artificial leather includes mixed spinning an island polymer and a sea polymer having a different dissolving property from that of the island polymer at a predetermined temperature, producing a non-woven substrate from the fiber obtained, immersing the non-woven substrate into a polymer, dissolving and removing the sea polymer in the non-woven substrate to obtain an artificial leather as a semi-finished product, and polishing the surface of the artificial leather to obtain an artificial leather having excellent dyeability and advanced fluff-like property. The ratio of melt flow index of the sea polymer to relative viscosity of the island polymer is about 20 to about 55, in which the relative viscosity of the island polymer is about 2.7 to about 3.5 and the weight percentage of the sea polymer relative to the sum of the sea polymer and the island polymer is about 30% to about 70%.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of a micro-fibrous non-woven fabric of the suede leather type includes spinning a two-component fiber of the “islands in the sea” type having an island component and a sea component and then preparing a felt from the two-component fiber. The felt is treated with thermal stabilization and impregnated with polyurethane from an aqueous polyurethane emulsion. The polyurethane is fixed to the felt and the sea component is removed. The felt is then impregnated with polyurethane for a second time with an aqueous emulsion or a high durability solution in organic solvent. The polyurethane is then fixed to the felt for a second time to obtain a non-woven fabric and a finishing treatment is applied to the non-woven fabric.

Abstract: A process for the production of a worsted wool fabric. A single wool yarn is shielded by wrapping a polymeric filament around it, to form a combined yarn. The combined yarn is weaved and subsequently the shielding polymer, which may be a synthetic polymer, is separated from the wool. The single wool yarn may be dyed prior to weaving and the wool may be roving.

Abstract: The inventive method provides highly desirable hand to various different types of fabrics through the initial immobilization of individual fibers within target fabrics and subsequent treatment through abrasion, sanding, or napping of at least a portion of the target fabric. Such a procedure includes “nicking” the immobilized fibers thereby permitting the fibers to produce a substantially balanced strength of the target fabric in the fill and warp directions while also providing the same degree of hand improvements as obtained with previous methods. Furthermore, this process also provides the unexpected improvement of non-pilling to synthetic fibers as the “nicking” of the immobilized fibers results in the lack of unraveling of fibers and thus the near impossibility of such fibers balling together to form unwanted pills on the fabric surface. Fabrics treated by this process are also contemplated within this invention.

Abstract: A nubuck-like woven fabric comprising a two-layered structural yarn wherein ultra-fine polyester multifilaments are primarily disposed in a sheath portion and polyester multifilaments having a larger single fiber thickness are primarily disposed in a core portion, and having an apparent specific gravity of 0.35-0.7 and a shear rigidity of 0.5-1.2 gf/cm.multidot.deg. This woven fabric is produced by a method wherein a woven fabric of a two-layered structural yarn composed of (i) side-by-side type or islands-in-sea type composite multifilaments comprising (a) a readily soluble ingredient and (b) ultra-fine multifilaments-forming ingredient and (ii) highly shrinkable multifilaments, is subjected to a treatment for dissolving and removing ingredient (a) without substantial shrinkage of the two-layered structural yarn, then, the woven fabric is shrunk in a widespread state.

Abstract: Striped patterning of dyed fabric, particularly dyed denim, is obtained by impacting the fabric with a row of columnar jet streams of fluid generated from a manifold under pressure while conveying it on a support member in a machine direction through a patterning station. The orifice gauge and diameter, manifold pressure, and line speed are selected to obtain optimal striping without blurring, loss of fabric strength or durability, or excessive warp shrinkage. Preferably, the jet strip is removably interchangeable in a common hydrojet manifold for forming different kinds of striped patterns. The back side of denim fabric may be subjected to pre-treatment to cause the surface of the dyed warp side to fill in and darken with color. A strie striping effect can also be obtained using a combination of jet strips. The striped patterning station can be incorporated at any suitable point in a conventional denim finishing range.

Abstract: A suede-like woven fabric exhibiting a superior resilient elasticity and superior bulkiness may be obtained by a method in which an ultrafine filament yarn, which contains sea and island components having considerably different solubilities to alkali, is mixed with a hollow, high-shrinkable yarn having a greater fineness than the ultrafine filament yarn. The mixed yarn is used as warp and/or weft, thereby obtaining a gray which is then treated to eliminate easy-soluble components. After completing such a micronization, the gray is subjected to a continuous process including a sanding treatment and a dyeing treatment.

Abstract: A process for making a multi-ply fabric, which includes the steps of applying a water soluble material, which has no adverse effect on fabrics, around a water insoluble thread to provide a binding yarn; binding a plurality of unit fabrics one upon another with the binding yarn to provide a multi-ply fabric; putting the multi-ply fabric in water to dissolve the water soluble material thereby providing a multi-ply fabric bound with only the water insoluble thread.

Abstract: A fiber string having a plurality of loops extending outwardly therefrom is formed by knitting a loop pile fabric with non-soluble and soluble yarns and then dissolving the soluble yarns in a solution to release the knitted loops. The loop pile fabric includes a central rib, or backbone, knitted from a plurality of non-soluble yarns, a plurality of loops knitted into the central rib such that terminal ends thereof extend outwardly from opposite sides of the central rib, and a strip of retaining fabric respectively knitted into the terminal ends of the loops on each side of said central rib. The loops are knitted from a plurality of non-soluble yarns, and the strips of retaining fabric are knitted from a plurality of soluble yarns. The retaining fabrics hold the ends of the loops during knitting. However, the loops are subsequently freed from the retaining fabric by immersing the entire fabric in a solution capable of dissolving the soluble yarns, i.e. the retaining fabric.

Abstract: Three reuasable surgical/medical fabrics provide improved barrier properties, as reflected by their Suter ratings, and also posses a "hand" similar to a "cotton hand". The Suter ratings are degraded in the order of 10%-20% after 100 sterile reprocessing cycles. The fabrics are reliable free of "voids", permitting their use as a single layer barrier panel. The fabrics are woven, respectively, with false twist 100/100 warp yarns and air texturized core and effect 2/60/100 fill yarns; flat trilobal 100/50 warp yarns and air texturized core and effect 2/60/100 fill yarns; and false twist 2/50/34 warp yarns and false twist 150/200 fill yarns. The fabrics are characterized by a minimum porosity of at least 10.times.10.sup.6 pores/square centimeter and maximum average. and mean pore sizes. The fabrics have a thickness of at least 0.005 inch, a weight of at least 3.5 ounces per square yard and a filament density of at least 2.0.times.10.sup.6 filaments per square inch.

Abstract: A process for the manufacture of a fibrous texture for producing a composite material article. The fibrous texture is formed of a yarn comprising discontinuous fibers which are made of a refractory material or a precursor thereof. The discontinuous fibers are disposed parallel to one another, without twist. A covering yarn made of a fugitive material is disposed over the discontinuous fibers to provide integrity to the yarn. The covering yarn is eliminated after formation of the fibrous texture.

Abstract: When textile materials are treated with wet processes, attempts are usually made to detect organic and inorganic contaminant substances retained in the cloth either by allowing conductivity-measuring or other electrodes placed on the cloth to travel with it during transport, or by analyzing the fluid squeezed out of the cloth. The data obtained by these methods are extremely unreliable and subject to interfering factors. As a substantial improvement, it is proposed that the loading of the cloth with extraneous substances be measured in the interior of the cloth, between or at its surfaces. This can be achieved by applying and collecting solvent to extract samples of the extraneous substances from the cloth, section by section, and measuring the extraneous substances in the collected solvent quantitatively and/or qualitatively.

Abstract: The present invention provides a narrow orthopedic casting tape which can be handled in longer lengths suitable for economical production of coated fabric products. The narrow casting tape of the present invention is knitted as a wide fiberglass fabric with at least one removable connecting yarn in the length (i.e., warp) direction of the fabric which acts to connect two narrower strips of fiberglass fabric. The removable connecting yarn is subsequently removed from the fabric by a heat treatment process which separates the wider fabric into two narrower fabrics and also heat sets the fabric. Alternatively, the removable connecting yarn may be removed from the fabric by a dissolution process. Narrow fabrics of the present invention can also be constructed of organic yarns.The present invention also provides a tearable orthopedic casting tape which has a high degree of extensibility.

Abstract: An electrically conductive textile fabric in which the electrical conductivity may be made to vary in a pattern configuration, and a method for manufacturing such fabric. A textile fabric is coated with an electrically conductive polymeric coating, and the coating is selectively removed in those areas in which a reduced electrical conductivity is desired. The removal may be achieved by means of high velocity water jets, sculpturing, or other means.

Abstract: The invention concerns a method for making a non-woven from unbleached cotton or other natural ligno-cellulose fibers comprising a surface layer of substances rendering the fiber hydrophobic and comprising the following stages:formation of a sheet of unbound fibers on a water-permeable cloth,tangling the sheet fibers by means of a plurality of water jets issuing from arrays of injectors located transversely to the direction of advance of the support, the method being characterized in that the total energy imparted to the sheet by the set of jets is at least equal to a minimum threshold corresponding to the value at which said sheet becomes hydrophilic.The invention also concerns a hydrophilic non-woven made by hydraulic binding from unbleached cotton or other natural, ligno-cellulose fibers such as flax, hemp or ramie and free of chemical treatment.

Abstract: A fibrous preform is formed from a yarn composed of long discontinuous fibers made of a refractory material or its precursor. The discontinuous fibers are disposed parallel to one another without twist, and the integrity of the yarn is achieved by a covering yarn made of a fugitive material. The fibrous preform is intended to be densified by a matrix material for the manufacture of a composite material article. The covering yarn is eliminated before the preform is densified by the matrix material.

Abstract: The method of providing an impression fabric in which the fill yarns do not protrude from the plane of the fabric. The impression fabric is a tubular woven fabric in which a plurality of warp yarns is woven in one edge thereof and dissolved by washing after the fabric has been formed.

Abstract: A method for separation of PVA from an aqueous solution thereof such as the waste water containing PVA from the pretreatment of a textile product, in which a peroxosulfate such as ammonium peroxosulfate is added to an aqueous PVA solution, particularly in an acidic condition with addition of sulfuric acid, at a temperature above 70.degree. C. for the separation of PVA, and as a result the thus separated PVA contains only a small amount of water in the range of about 60-70% and can easily be treated.

Abstract: The method of providing an impression fabric in which the fill yarns do not protrude from the plane of the fabric. The impression fabric is a tubular woven fabric in which a plurality of warp yarns is woven in one edge thereof and dissolved by washing after the fabric has been formed.

Abstract: A process for forming crepe fabrics on a shuttleless loom is provided which includes temporary stabilization of highly twisted (e.g., 40-70 TPI) filament yarn. To this end, hot melt size is applied at a predetermined temperature in predetermined amounts (e.g., add-on of about 10.5-13.5%) immediately after twisting so as to reduce the liveliness of the yarn and to thereby permit it to be woven. After weaving, the yarn stabilization is reversed by a desizing operation. The fabric is subsequently heat treated to develop crepe characteristics.

Abstract: A fiber entanglement is provided which is characterized in that it is a three-dimensional entanglement comprising elastic fibers (A) each being a fine-denier fiber bundle or exhibiting porous fiber structure as seen on a fiber cross section with a number of irregularly-shaped pores extending in the fiber axis direction; nonshrinkable, nonelastic fibers (B); and shrinkable, nonelastic fibers (C); said fibers (A) are at least partially bonded or fused together at various points of contact with one another and, thereby, produce a taut condition; said nonshrinkable, nonelastic fibers (B) are folded several times over by means of the elastic fibers (A) and the shrinkable, nonelastic fibers (C). This fiber entanglement is useful as a base material for leather-like sheet materials.

Abstract: A device and method is presented for removing filler from electrical cords or the like comprising a heater, a nozzle for directing a thin stream of heated air against the filler, and a pulse generator is provided whereby cord filler is degraded by heat and ejected from the cord by a pulse of high pressure air.

Abstract: Fabric made up of a series of knitted collars, sleeve bands, bottom bands, plackets, or the like, intended for use on knitted sport shirts, blouses, and the like, and held together by a separator thread with a relatively high melting point is separated by means of gradually heating the fabric to near the melting point of the separator thread and then to the melting point while holding the fabric under tension.

Abstract: Fabric made up of a series of knitted collars, sleeve bands, bottom bands, plackets, or the like, intended for use on knitted sport shirts, blouses, and the like, and held together by a separator thread with a relatively high melting point is separated by means of gradually heating the fabric to near the melting pont of the separator thread and then to the melting point while holding the fabric under tension.

Abstract: A method for preparing water soluble fabric for chemical laces. The water soluble fabric is composed of webs of hot water soluble polyvinyl alcohol fibers and a water soluble resin fixably adhered to the fibers of which the fabric is composed.

Abstract: An entirely warp-knit lace strip having sinuate scallops knit of bent scallop-forming yarn, the scallops having outwardly protruding U-shaped picots at their edges.The lace strip described is made by a series of steps including the formation of chain stitch lines in step-like indentation by overlapping the scallop-forming yarns which are shifted through a plurality of needles after scallops have been formed for all stitch lines. Simultaneously, picot-forming yarns are transversely shifted so as to protrude from the edges of the scallops. The protruding parts are held or attached to soluble yarn portions. As desired, the soluble yarns are dissolved to free the scallops and picots.Several portions of lace texture are made from two kinds of yarn, an insoluble one and a soluble one with respect to the same solvent, which are threaded on the same guide bar used to form the mesh fabric.