| Baby herringbone |
Herringbone knit using fine yarns resulting in a lighter
and smoother fabrication. |
| Baby pique |
Pique knit using fine yarns - same as baby
herringbone. |
| Backing |
Woven or nonwoven material used underneath the
item or fabric being embroidered to provide support and stability. |
| Badge |
An insignia of identification |
| Basket weave |
Variation of the plain weave in which two or more
warp and weft threads are woven side by side to
resemble a "basket" look. Fabrics have a loose
construction and a flat appearance. |
| Beaded placket |
Design detail at the opening of the placket that is
formed by rolling the underside of the top placket to
the face creating a piped or ridge detail at the edge.
Sometimes the beading is in a contrast color. |
| Bean Stitch |
Three stitches applied back and forth between two
points, in the same space as one regular stitch. This
stitch is used to provide secure registration in place of
a repeated, single stitch outline that may not align
properly. |
| Bengaline |
Lustrous durable fabric with heavy crosswise ribs,
used to make coats and suits. |
| Binary |
Any downloadable file that contains more than simply
human-readable, ASCII text. Typically it refers to a
runnable program available text. Typically, it refers to
a program available for download, but it can also refer
to pictures, sounds, or movies, among other things.
Most newsgroups have subgroups specifically for
binaries; a posting in comp.sys.mac.comm might
announce that a program is available for download,
but the binary (the file itself) would be found in
comp.sys.mac.comm.binaries. Newsgroups, such as
alt.pictures.binaries, contain files for download (in this
case, pictures). You will need a newsreader to
download and decode binary files. |
| Binary numbers |
A numbering system with a base (radix) of 2, it is
unlike the numbering systems most of us use, which
have bases of 10 (decimal numbers), 12
(measurement in feet and inches), and 60 (time).
Binary numbers are preferred for computers, for
precision and economy. Building an electronic circuit
that can detect the difference between two states
(high current and low current, or 0 and 1) is easier
and less expensive than building circuits that detect
the difference among 10 states (0 through 9). The
word bit is derived from the phrase Binary digit. |
| BIOS
Basic Input/Output System (pronounced: buyohss)
|
A technical computing term used to describe
what is coded into a PC's ROM to provide the basic
instructions for controlling the system hardware. The
operating system (OS) and application programs both
directly access BIOS routines to provide better
compatibility for such functions as screen display.
Some makers of add-in boards, such as graphics
accelerator cards, provide their own BIOS modules
that work in conjunction with (or replace) the BIOS on
the system's motherboard. |
| Biowashed |
Caps are dyed normally and then very gently washed
with stones in a chemical solvent to create a very
subtle worn look. |
| Bird's eye |
Small diamond pattern accentuated by a dot in the
middle, resembling the eye of a bird. Commonly used
in suitings. |
| Birthday plan |
Sale whereby employees or customers receive a
specialty or business gift on their birthdays. |
| Bit |
Basic unit of digital information. |
| Blanket cloth |
Thick heavily fulled woolen fabric with a softly brushed
finish similar to an actual blanket, used for outerwear. |
| Blatt Stitch |
A term used in Schiffli embroidery, referring to zig zag
stitches laid close together. In Multihead embroidery,
the term is Satin Stitch. |
| Blazer cloth |
General term for a variety of flannels and meltons
used to make blazers. |
| Blends |
Two or more types of staple fibers in one yarn to
achieve color mixtures, unusual dyeing variations, or
better performance characteristics. The most common
blend is cotton and polyester. |
| Blind embossing |
Design stamped without metallic leaf or ink, giving a
bas-relief effect. |
| Blind Stamping |
Hot-stamping without fail. The approach, used often
with leather, gives a more subtle imprint than hotstamping
and a shallower imprint than debossing. |
| BMP Bitmap |
Any picture you see on a Web page is a
bitmap. Bitmaps come in many file formats, such as
GIF, JPG, TIF, BMP, PCT, PCX, and DIB (Device
Independent Bitmap). They can be read and edited by
paint programs and image editors such as Photoshop
or Paint Shop Pro. As its name suggests, a bitmap is
a map of dots or pixels. If you zoom in or try to scale
up a bitmap, it will look blocky. |
| Bobbin |
A pre-wound reel or spool of thread, usually plain
white. The contents of the bobbin, the bobbin thread,
are stitched to the back of the fabric. |
| Boiled wool |
Thick dense fabric that is heavily fulled to completely
obscure its knitted construction. It has the suppleness
of a knit, with the ability and shape retention of a
woven fabric. |
| Bonding |
The joining together of two fabrics permanently with a
bonding agent (also known as heat sealing). |
| Bore |
A sharp pointed instrument used to puncture goods,
part of the Schiffli embroidery machine. |
| Boring |
Open-work incorporated into embroidered designs; a
sharp-pointed instrument punctures or bores the fabric, and stitches are made around the opening to
enclose the raw edges. |
| Borrowed interest |
Technique in which a marketer associates a
promotion or product with a better-known property for
the purpose of attracting attention or implied
endorsement. |
| Boucle |
French for buckled, curled or ringed. It describes a
knitted or woven fabric characterized by loops, knots,
or curls on one or both sides, made with a variety of
looped, curled, or slubbed yarns in one or both
directions. |
| Bounce |
When an e-mail message cannot get to its recipient
for some reason, it is returned or bounced to the
sender, with an error message informing the user that
it was not sent. This is also known as "bouncing
back." You may hear someone say, "I tried to send
you an e-mail message but it got bounced back." If
this happens to you, check the e-mail address and
contact tech support at your ISP. |
| Bounce-back |
Bonus direct-mail offer sent along with a premium
won or earned by the consumer. |
| Break for color |
To separate, by color, elements to be printed in
different colors. |
| Brights (Color Families) |
Grouping made up of vibrant, primary colors such as
blue, green, red, and yellow. |
| Broadcloth |
Close plain weave fabric made of cotton, rayon, or a
blend of cotton or rayon with polyester. The term
broadcloth is also used in reference to a plain or twill
weave wool or wool-blend fabric that is highly napped
(brushed) and then pressed flat. |
| Broken link (or) broken graphic |
A link that no longer works or a graphic that does not
appear when a Web page loads are said to be
"broken." In other words, when a link or image is
"clicked on" and it does not take you to the correct
destination, but instead an error message appears,
the link is broken. When an image doesn't load, and
instead you see the alt text or some generic icon
shapes, it's a broken graphic. Broken links and broken
graphics occur for several reasons: the server hosting
the Web site has shut down temporarily or has been
restarted; the Web site has moved to an entirely new
server; the file or files have been moved or deleted; or
the HTML code is incorrect. |
| Browser |
Used to view and navigate Web pages and other
information on the World Wide Web. |
| Browser compatibility |
A term used to compare the way a Web page looks
on one WWW browser as opposed to another. For
example, if you view NetLingo.com on Netscape, it
will look pretty much the same as it does on Internet
Explorer (illustrating browser compatibility). Some
time ago, though, if you viewed NetLingo.com on the
AOL browser, it would've looked jumbled (a case of
browser incompatibility). The reason these
incompatibilities exist relates to the way a browser
interprets the code that creates a Web page (HTML).
Browser compatibility can also refer to cross-platform
compatibility, which is, for example, the way a page
renders or displays on a Windows system as opposed
to on a Mac. The differences are usually very slight,
however, just enough to annoy some Web designers
and their clients into spending great time and energy
on beta-testing a Web site with every browser on
every type of system. Browser compatibility is often
mentioned in conjunction with the term browser
support, but the two should not be confused. |
| Brushing |
Finishing process for knit or woven fabrics where
brushes or other devices are used to raise a nap in
fabrics to create a novelty surface texture. Used
mainly in fall or winter seasons because of its warm
feel. |
| Buckram |
Liner which adds support to the front of a cap. |
| Bug |
Manufacturer's identification mark printed on a form or
product, usually in an inconspicuous area. |
| Bullion |
A hand made emblem, made with brass or silver
hollow thread. These finished emblems are a product
of India or Pakistan. |
| Business gift |
Merchandise given by a business for goodwill, without
obligation to its customers and employees. Also
known as an executive gift. |
| Buy-in |
for travel incentive participants to purchase part of a trip if they do not fully qualify by
sales performance. |
| Byte |
Unit of digital information, equivalent to one character
or 8 or 32 bits. |
