| VALUE OF COLOUR |
The luminosity
or lightness or darkness of a colour. |
| VANE |
In feathers, the
section that consists of a solid, stiff collection of
barbs, |
| VANISHING STRIPES |
Woven broken-stripe
patterns |
| VARIGATED YARN |
A multicoloured
yarn commonly produced by printing. |
| VAT DYES |
These are water-insoluble
dyes, usually containing keto groups |
| VEGETABLE DYE |
A class of natural
dyes |
| VEGETABLE FIBRES |
Fibres of vegetable
origin. |
| VEGETABLE SILK |
A lustrous seed
hair |
| VEILING |
A large variety
of gauze-like materials used for veils, |
| VEINING |
A striped gauze
effect in a fabric |
| VELLUM |
A fine, very transparent
cotton fabric |
| VELOUR FINISH |
A napped finish
applied to woollen fabric |
| VELOURS |
Loosely applied
to all types of fabric with nap or cut pile on one side |
| VELVET |
A warp pile fabric,
made with two warps, a ground warp and a pile warp |
| VELVETEEN |
weft pile cotton
fabric made to resemble velvet. |
| VENETIAN |
Highly lustrous
twill cloth originally made in Venice from silk. |
| VENITIAN FINISH |
Also called Roller
finish |
| VESTING |
Any fabric used
for vests |
| VICTORIA SILK |
A petticoat fabric
of silk-and-wool which is guaranteed not to rustle. |
| VICUÑA FINISH |
A finishing process
for worsted fabric |
| VINAL |
A manufactured
fibre |
| VINYLAL FIBRE |
A range of manufactured
fibres |
| VINYON |
A manufactured
fibre |
| VIRGIN FIBRE |
The terms 'virgin'
or 'new' as descriptive of any fibre |
| VISCOSE FIBRE |
One of the earliest
types of artificial silk |
| VISIBLE LIGHT |
Visible light is
only a small section of a much broader band of electromagnetic
radiation |
| VIYELLA |
Trade name describing
an old, established, classic fabric. |
| VOILE |
A light, fine sheer
fabric originally made from hard (high) twisted combed
cotton yarns in plain weave |
| VOILE YARN |
A special hard
twist yarn used for voile fabrics. |
| VOILETTE |
A machine made
French lace with powdered dots or fine trailing line designs |
| VULCANIZED FIBRE |
A cotton cellulose
material, layers of which are bonded by chemical treatment, |
