Assessing the Quality of Four Naturally Colored Cottons

Textile Research Journal

Volumn 71, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 993-999

  Price, John B ^a   Cui, Xiaoliang ^a   Calamari, Timothy A ^a   Mcdaniel, Robert G ^b  

^a SOUTHERN REGIONAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COTTON YARN; SILVER; TESTING;

ROTOR YARN;

TEXTILES;

COLOR; COTTON YARN; MICRONAIRE VALUE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; TESTING; WOVEN FABRIC;

EID: 0035513364     PISSN: 00405175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/004051750107101110     Document Type: Article

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