is a process that may be applied to woollens, cottons, spun silks, and spun rayons, Napping including both woven

and knitted types, to raise a velvety, soft surface. The process involves passing the fabric over revolving cylinders covered with fine wires that lift the short, loose fibres, usually from the weft yarns, to the surface, forming a nap. Napped yarn A larger textile sample, used to view pattern and color for specification. Napped Yarn is the derivative of mohair. Mohair is a a kind of angora which has long and thick fiber, slippery handle and fluffy appearance. Napped Yarn is exactly imitating these characteristics of the mohair yarn which adopts such raw materials as the wool nitrile, etc. to blend with mohair yarn or spin into yarn alone, and make the fiber emerge from the surface through the raising machine. Napped Yarn can use the horizontal machine or it can hand hook. The fabric is light, soft and has good heat insulating ability, and can reduce the production cost.
Abstract Fabrics and methods of making such fabrics whereby no evident pile structure is present in raised pattern areas on the face of the fabric. The construction of the fabric is nonetheless such that the yarns forming the raised pattern areas are more susceptible to napping as compared to the yarns forming the recessed ground regions of the fabric. This fabric construction of selected yarns will thus permit preferential napping of the pattern areas to be achieved (e.g., using conventional napping wires) while the adjacent ground regions of the fabric remain substantially un-napped. Subsequent shearing of the napped pattern areas thereby results in a velvet-like hand being achieved.

http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/6177170/fulltext.html A fabric material having a textured surface and a process for producing the fabric material are disclosed. The fabric material is made from a woven fabric substrate including a warp yarn and at least first and second pick yarns. The first pick yarn is woven into the fabric substrate to provide integrity. The second pick yarn, on the other hand, is a yarn that is nappable from the surface of the fabric substrate. In accordance with the present invention, the fabric substrate is fed through a napping process which naps the second pick yarn appearing on the face of the fabric. The fabric substrate is then fed through a shearing process which shears the napped yarns. The napped and sheared yarns form pile-like tufts on the surface of the fabric. Ultimately, the napped and sheared yarns produce a velvet-like fabric having an improved aesthetic appearance. http://www.freepatentsonline.com/6823900.html
Napped: A fabric which has been treated to give a soft or fuzzy surface (nap) usually by brushing.

http://www.textilesintelligence.com/glo/index.cfm NAP: A downy surface given to a cloth when part of the fiber is raised from the basic structure. http://www.celaneseacetate.com/textile_glossary_filament_acetate.pdf Napping is a process that may be applied to woollens, cottons, spun silks, and spun rayons, including both woven and knitted types, to raise a velvety, soft surface. The process involves passing the fabric over revolving cylinders covered with fine wires that lift the short, loose fibers, usually from the weft yarns, to the surface, forming a nap. http://www.apparelsearch.com/glossary_n.htm Nap
(1) A Fibrous Surface, Produced On A Fabric Or Felt, In Which Part Of The Fibre Is Raised From The Basic Structure., Note: Originally Nap And Pile Were Used Synonymously, But The Present Trend Of Using The Two Terms For Different Concepts Is To Be Encouraged As Providing A Means Of Differentiation And Avoidance Of Confusion. (2) A Local Variation, Used In The Flax-processing Industry, Of Nep. (3) In Raw Cotton, Matted Clumps Of Fibres Which Are Entangled More Loosely Than Those In Neps

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