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pill: a standalone construct

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Textile physics

Little balls of tangled fibre on worn cloth

In textiles, a pill is one of the small balls of entangled fibre that form on a fabric surface with wear and abrasion, and pilling is the process by which loose fibre ends are worked free, roll up into these balls, and stay anchored by stubborn fibres instead of shedding. Gintis and Mead's 1959 The mechanism of pilling traced the sequence of fuzzing, ball formation, and wear-off and linked a fabric's propensity to pill to fibre strength and flex life. The referent is a surface defect of a textile, graded against photographic standards, and it is unrelated to a medicinal tablet that happens to carry the same name.[1]

Unit
Pilling grade (visual rating, typically 1–5) after a set abrasion
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Rated by abrading a specimen in a standard tester and comparing the pilled surface against reference photographs

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References

  1. Gintis, D., & Mead, E. J. (1959). The mechanism of pilling. Textile Research Journal, 29(7), 578–585. https://doi.org/10.1177/004051755902900709

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