ISO 8498:1990

Woven fabrics — Description of defects — Vocabulary ISO 8498:1990

Publication date:   Mar 1, 1990

Scope

The purpose is to define woven-fabric defects, i.e. those characteristics that have been unintentionally introduced into the fabric. The presence of one or other of these characteristics in a fabric does not automatically imply that the fabric is sub-standard. Divided in general defects, yarn defects in a woven fabric, defects in the weft direction, defects in the warp direction, defects due to, or apparent after, dyeing, printing or finishing, defects of, or associated with, the selvedges.