resist prints

02.10.2025

Made by printing the designs using substance that resists dye stuffs. The fabric is often piece dyed to obtain the wanted color.

resist dyeing

A pattern and ground created by methods used to “resist” or prevent the dye from reaching all the cloth.

resilience

The property of a textile material to recover from a deformed state.

Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemical (REACH)

REACH is a new European Community Regulation on chemicals and their safe use (EC 1907/2006). It deals with the Registration, Evaluation, Authorizat...

reed

The comblike device on a loom through which the warp ends pass.

reprocessed fiber

Fiber made from fabric which was never put into use.

renewable energy

Energy derived from sources that do not become depleted, such as the sun, wind, oceans, rivers, eligible biomass and heat from the earth’s interior.

renewable

Capable of being replaced by natural ecological cycles or sound management practices.

recycling

The series of activities, including collection, separation and processing, by which products or other materials are recovered from the solid waste ...