Synthetic fiber

MFA Acc. #: L-R 27.2008

Description

Fibers manufactured from substances that have been produced or modified by chemical reactions. Artificial fibers were first made in 1842 when molten glass was formed into filaments. By the late 1880s, man-made fabrics were being made from nitrate cellulose nitrate and fiber rayon fibers. Current examples include: fiber acetate, fiber acrylic, fiber alginic, fiber anidex, fiber aramid, fiber azlon, fiber casein, fiber cupro, fiber nylon, fiber novoloid, fiber nytril, fiber modacrylic, fiber modal, fiber olefin, fiber polyester, fiber saran, fiber spandex, sulfar, fiber triacetate, fiber vinal, and fiber vinyon.

MFA Acc. #: L-SE 1071.5.1

Synonyms and Related Terms

synthetic fibers; man-made fiber; manmade fiber; man-made fibre; fibras sintticas(Esp.)

Comparisons

Properties of Synthetic Fibers

Fiber Burn Tests

Authority

• Hoechst Celanese Corporation, Hoechst Celanese Corporation, Dictionary of Fiber & Textile Technology (older version called Man-made Fiber and Textile Dictionary, 1965), Hoechst Celanese Corporation, Charlotte NC, 1990

• Rosalie Rosso King, Rosalie Rosso King, Textile Identification, Conservation, and Preservation, Noyes Publications, Park Ridge, NJ, 1985

• Marjory L. Joseph, Marjory L. Joseph, Introductory Textile Science, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Fort Worth, TX, 1986

• J.Gordon Cook, J.Gordon Cook, Handbook of Textile Fibres:II Man-made Fibres, Merrow Publishing Co. , Durham, England