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Fabric Bending Property

Photographer Unknown, (Fabric Bending Property)

Bending Property

The fabric bending property is apparently a function of the bending property of its constituent yarns. Two parameters can be used to measure this property, i.e. B and 2HB. B is bending rigidity, a measure of a fabric ability to resist to a bending deformation. In other words, it reflects the difficulty with which a fabric can be deformed by bending. This parameter is particularly critical in the tailoring of lightweight fabrics. The higher the bending rigidity, the higher the fabric ability to resist when it is bent by an external force, i.e. during fabric manipulation in spreading and sewing. Apart from for the bending rigidity of the constituent yarns and fibers, the mobility of the warp/weft within the fabric also comes into play in this aspect. In addition, the effect of density and fabric thickness are also very profound for this property. 2HB represents the hysteresis of the bending moment. It is a measure of recovery from bending deformations. A lower value of 2HB is supposed to be better.

–Živa Zupin and Krste Dimitrovski, “Mechanical Properties of Fabrics from Cotton and Biodegradable Yarns Bamboo, SPF, PLA in Weft”

 

Irving Stone: “Desire Had Been Poured into the Nascent Form”

Photographer Unknown, Desire Had Been Poured

“It was like penetrating deep into white marble with the pounding live thrust of his chisel beating upward through the warm living marble with one ”Go!”, his whole body behind the heavy hammer, penetrating through ever deeper and deeper furrows of soft yielding living substance until he had reached the explosive climax, and all of his
fluid strength, love, passion, desire had been poured into the nascent form, and the marble block, made to love the and of the true sculptor, and responded, giving of its inner heat and substance and fluid form, until at last the sculptor and the marble had totally coalesced, so deeply penetrating and infusing each other that they had become one, marble and man and organic unity, each fulfilling the other in the greatest act of art and love known to the human species.”

― Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy

Charlie

Photographer Unknown, (Charlie)

“Until every soul is freely permitted to investigate every book, and creed, and dogma for itself, the world cannot be free. Mankind will be enslaved until there is mental grandeur enough to allow each man to have his thought and say. This earth will be a paradise when men can, upon all these questions, differ and yet grasp each other’s hands as friends. It is amazing to me that a difference of opinion upon subjects that we know nothing with certainty about, should make us hate, persecute, and despise each other.”

― Robert G. Ingersoll, Some Mistakes of Moses