All linens from Artex are able to go directly from our shipping box to your table. They're packed for convenient use, which means no ironing, no hassles, and no wasted time. The maximum load per unit of the original cross-section area obtained prior to rupture. It is the actual number of pounds resistance that a fabric will give to a breaking machine before the material is broken on the testing apparatus and may no longer be classed as a cloth or fabric. Bursting strengths are recorded on a dial set on the machine.
Tensile strength is one of the most important requisites of cloth.
Tenter Frame A machine that dries and stretches cloth to its finished width, and straightens its weave by the action of two diverging endless chains. Each chain is equipped with a series of clips that hold an edge of the cloth and convey it over gas flames or through a hot-air drying compartment. The actual number of warp ends and filling picks per inch in a woven cloth. A higher thread count translates into a better quality cloth. Warp Any yarn that runs lengthwise in cloth made on a loom.