Textile treatments

thumb|Scotswomen walking (fulling) woollen cloth, singing a [[waulking song, 1772 (engraving made by Thomas Pennant on one of his tours)]]

thumb|right|Mercerized cotton yarn reels thumb|right|Spool of a two-ply mercerized cotton thread with a polyester core.

thumb|A blue worsted wool girl's dress from the United States, made in approximately 1878, from the collection of Conner Prairie Worsted ( or ) is a high-quality type of wool yarn, the fabric made from this yarn, and a yarn weight category. The name derives from Worstead (from Old English Wurðestede, "enclosure place"), a village in the English county of Norfolk. That village, together with North Walsham and Aylsham, formed a manufacturing centre for yarn and cloth in the 12th century, when pasture enclosure and liming rendered the East Anglian soil too rich for the older agrarian sheep breeds

any process performed after dyeing the yarn or fabric to improve the look, performance, or "hand" (feel) of the finished textile or clothing

thumb|right|180px|A 1948 advertisement for sanforized cotton fabric Sanforization is a treatment for fabrics to reduce shrinkage from washing. The process was patented by Sanford Lockwood Cluett (1874–1968) in 1930. It works by stretching, shrinking, and fixing the woven cloth in both length and width before cutting and producing, to reduce the shrinkage which would otherwise occur after washing. The original patent mentioned "goods of cotton, linen, woolen, silk, rayon, and combinations thereof".

A dye for synthetic polymers

combing process used to clean and straighten scutched flax or other bast fibers

similar technique used on apparel